Page 2: Historical Events In April - 15
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
1697 On April - 15 charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1707 On April - 15 leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)
1715 On April - 15 uprising of Yamasse-indians in South Carolina
1716 Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar on April - 15.
1719 On April - 15 johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76
1729 On this day in history johann S Bachs "Mattheus Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 On this day in history bottle opener invented
1741 On April - 15 charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)
1755 Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London on April - 15.
1756 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.
1757 George Knowil Jackson, composer on this day in history.
1764 On this day in history jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, dies
1765 On April - 15 michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53
1766 On this day in history friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1776 Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy on this day in history.
1784 1st balloon flight in Ireland on April - 15.
1788 On April - 15 england, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1788 Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77 on April - 15.
1793 Bank of England hands out 1st £5 note on this day in history.
1793 On this day in history friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1800 James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole on April - 15.
1800 James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole Compass sales go through the roof on April - 15.
1800 James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic) on this day in history.
1802 William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud on this day in history.
1809 On April - 15 hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician
1811 Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.
1812 Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter on this day in history.
1814 John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep) on April - 15.
1817 On April - 15 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1820 On this day in history evander McNair, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 On this day in history emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.
1824 On April - 15 theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
1827 On April - 15 julius Tausch, composer
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