Page 2: Historical Events In April - 26

1709  On this day in history frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa   

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

1718  Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy) on this day in history.   

1721  On April - 26 smallpox vaccination 1st administrated   

1726  On April - 26 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  Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia on April - 26.   

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

1785  The birth of John James Audubon, American naturalist painter on this day in history.   

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 April - 26.   

1789  Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 on April - 26.   

1796  Auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer on this day in history.   

1798  On April - 26 the birth of Eugene Delacroix, French artist   

1798  Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal) on this day in history.   

1803  Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France on April - 26.   

1805  Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55 on April - 26.   

1806  Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer on April - 26.   

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 this day in history.   

1819  On April - 26 odd Fellows Lodge established   

1819  On this day in history odd Fellows Lodge forms   

1820  On this day in history alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)   

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

1822  On April - 26 frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)   

1827  On this day in history charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1827  On this day in history bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90   

1828  On April - 26 russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence   

1834  Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist on this day in history.   

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1319  Jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64) was born on April - 26.   

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

1564  On April - 26 birth of william Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright (Hamlet)   

1567  Nicolas Forme, composer was born on April - 26.   

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

1603  Francesco Nigetti, composer was born on April - 26.   

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

1648  On April - 26 birth of pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706)   

0757  Stephen II, Pope (752-57), dies on this day in history.   

1192  On April - 26 death of emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)   

1196  On this day in history alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies   

1444  On April - 26 robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65   

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

1478  Death of Giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24 on April - 26.   

1489  Death of Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465) on April - 26.   

1558  On April - 26 jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies