Historical Events In April - 26

1709  Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa on this day in history.  

1711  On April - 26 david Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)  

1718  On April - 26 esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)  

1721  Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated on April - 26.  

1726  On this day in history pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter  

1726  On this day in history jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75  

1731  Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 on April - 26.  

1755  1st Russian university opens (Moscow) on this day in history.  

1776  Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book) on April - 26.  

1777  On April - 26 sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia  

1782  Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria on this day in history.  

1785  On April - 26 the birth of John James Audubon, American naturalist painter  

1785  John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist on April - 26.  

1785  On April - 26 karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40  

1787  Ludwig Uhland, writer on this day in history.  

1789  Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 on this day in history.  

1796  Auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer on April - 26.  

1798  On this day in history the birth of Eugene Delacroix, French artist  

1798  Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal) on April - 26.  

1803  On April - 26 meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France  

1805  On April - 26 jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55  

1806  On April - 26 ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer  

1808  Martha Finley, children's book author on April - 26.  

1812  Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant on April - 26.  

1814  King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England on April - 26.  

1819  Odd Fellows Lodge established on this day in history.  

1819  Odd Fellows Lodge forms on April - 26.  

1820  Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel) on this day in history.  

1822  The birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect on this day in history.  

1822  On this day in history frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)  

1827  On April - 26 charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

1827  Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90 on this day in history.  

1828  Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence on this day in history.  

1834  On April - 26 artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist  

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1319  Jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64) was born on this day in history.  

1538  On this day in history birth of giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)  

1564  William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright (Hamlet) was born on April - 26.  

1567  On April - 26 birth of nicolas Forme, composer  

1573  Marie de'Medici, Queen of France was born on this day in history.  

1603  On April - 26 birth of francesco Nigetti, composer  

1637  Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized was born on this day in history.  

1648  Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706) was born on April - 26.  

0757  On this day in history stephen II, Pope (752-57), dies  

1192  Death of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127) on April - 26.  

1196  Alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies on this day in history.  

1444  Robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65 on this day in history.  

1476  On this day in history death of simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453)  

1478  On this day in history death of giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24  

1489  On this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)  

1558  Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies on this day in history.