Historical Events In April - 26
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
1709 On April - 26 frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1711 On this day in history david Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1718 On April - 26 esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1721 On this day in history smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1726 On April - 26 pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter
1726 On April - 26 jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75
1731 Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 on this day in history.
1755 On this day in history 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
1776 Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book) on this day in history.
1777 On this day in history 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 On April - 26 ludwig Uhland, writer
1789 On April - 26 peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67
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 this day in history.
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 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer on April - 26.
1808 On April - 26 martha Finley, children's book author
1812 On April - 26 alfred Krupp, German arms merchant
1814 On this day in history king Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge established on April - 26.
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge forms on this day in history.
1820 On this day in history alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
1822 On this day in history the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect
1822 On April - 26 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 April - 26.
1828 On April - 26 russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1834 Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist on April - 26.
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