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April 1
1578 William Harvey--Born (English physician/medical theorist & author)
1640 Georg Mohr--Born (Danish mathematician)
1647 John Wilmot--Born (2nd Earl of Rochester/Son of Henry Wilmot & Anne St. John)
1684 Roger Williams--Died (English Theologian/American colonist &co-founder of Rhode Island/Son of James Williams & Alice Pemberton)
1765 Luigi Schiavonetti--Born (Italian engraver)
1776 Marie-Sophie Germain--Born (French mathematician)
1815 Otto von Bismarck--Born (German statesman)
1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner--Born (Lt. General. CSA/Kentucky Governor)
1834 James Fisk Jr.--Born (American Financier)
1843 John Armstrong--Died (American soldier/diplomat/Son of John Armstrong & Rebecca Lyon)
1854 Bill Traylor--Born (American Artist)
1901 John Robert Jones--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1902 William Denison Whipple--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1914 George Edward "Rube" Wadell--Died (American Professional Baseball player, left-handed pitcher)
April 2
742 Charlemagne(Charles the Great)--Born (Emperor of the West, King of France/Son of Pepin III "The Short" King of France & Bertrada II of Laon)
1524 Ulrich Zwingli, Leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, Married Anna Reinhard
1604 Edward de Vere-- Born (English Poet/17th Earl of Oxford/Son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford)
1743 Thomas Jefferson--Born (3rd President of U.S.)
1791 Comte de Mirabeau (real name Gabriel Honore Riquetti)--Died (French Revolution Orator)
1801 Battle of Copenhagen
1805 Hans Christian Anderson--Born
1814 Henry Lewis Benning (Old Rock)--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1823 John Edmond Owens--Born (American Comedian)
1826 Philip Dale Roddey--Born(Brigadier General, CSA)
1833 Thomas Howard Ruger--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1865 Ambrose Powell Hill--Died (Lt. General, CSA)
1891 Albert Pike--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
April 3
1367 Henry IV--Born (King of England/Son of John of Gaunt & Blanche)
1593 George Herbert--Born (British Author/Brother of Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury/Son of Richard Herbert & Madelen Newport (Lady Danvers)
1693 George Edwards--Born (English Naturalist)
1755 Simon Kenton--Born (American Frontiersman/Son of Mark Kenton Sr. & Mary Miller)
1783 Washington Irving--Born (American Author/Son of William Irving & Sarah Sanders)
1822 William Everett Hale--Born (American Author/Unitarian clergyman/Son of Nathan Hale & Sarah Preston Everett)
1823 William M Tweed "Boss"--Born (New York City Tammany Hall influencial Democrat)
1867 George Wythe Randolph--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/CSA Secretary of War)
1881 Earthquake in Scio, Turkey 7,000 people Killed & 20,000 people
injured
1882 Jesse James--Died
1993 Pinky Lee (Pincus Leff)--Died (American Comic/Children's TV Show: The Pinky Lee Show)
April 4
1774 Oliver Goldsmith--Died (Irish/English Author/Son of Charles Goldsmith and Ann Jones)
1802 Dorthea Dix--Born (Author/Philanthropist)
1814 John Blair Smith Todd--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army/US Congressman)
1817 John Wilson Sprague--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1820 Charles Devens Jr.--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1823 Robert Byington Mitchell--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1831 Edward Cary Walthall--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/US Senator)
1837 Henry Goddard Thomas--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1840 John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1841 William Henry Harrison--Died (9th President of U.S.)
1870 Albert Rust--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1878 Thomas Casimer Devin--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1899 George Leonard Andrews--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Marshal)
1901 George Thomas Anderson (Tige)--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1904 Americus Vespucius Rice--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army/US Congressman)
1905 Earthquake in Kangra, India 19,000 people Killed
April 5
1472 Bianca Maria Sforza--Born (Wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor/Daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan)
1588 Thomas Hobbs--Born (English Philosopher)
1604 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine--Born (Duke of Lorraine/Son of Francis II, Duke of Lorraine & Chritina of Salm)
1622 Vincenzo Viviani--Born (Italian Mathematician & Scientist)
1649 Elihu Yale--Born (First benefactor for Yale University)
1784 Louis Spohr--Born (German Composer/Violinist)
1804 Charles Pichegra--Died (French General)
1809 Karl von Halm--Born (Classical critic & Librarian)
1818 Lewis Baldwin Parsons--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1822 James Nagle--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1825 David Rumph (Neighbor) Jones--Born (Major General, CSA)
1880 Henry Knox Thatcher--Died (American Rear-Admiral)
1883 Joseph K Barnes--Died (Major General, Union Army)
April 6
1199 Richard I (The Lionheart)--Died [King of England (son of Eleanor and Henry II)]
1696 Charles Beauclerk--Born (2nd Duke of St. Albans)
1759 Israel Smith--Born(US Congressman/Senator/Governor)
1773 James Mill--Born (Scottish Economist/Historian/Father of John Stuart Mill)
1803 Sir William Hamilton--Died (British Diplomat & Archeologist/Sir William's wife was a mistress for Lord Admiral Haratio Nelson)
1824 George Thacher--Died (Massechusetts Congressman/Jurist)
1826 Gustave Moreau--Born (French Artist)
1828 Charles William Field--Born (Major General, CSA)
1862 Battle of Shiloh(American Civil War)
1865 John Austin Wharton--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1909 Robert E. Peary reached North Pole
1917 The United States declared war on Germany
April 7
1718 Hugh Blair--Born Scottish Author/Clergyman)
1770 William Wordsworth--Born (English poet/son of John Wordsworth & Ann Cookson)
1822 Gershom Mott--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1826 Friedrich Salomon--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1853 Leopold George Duncan Born (Prince of England/Son of Queen Victoria)
1862 Battle of Shiloh (American Civil War)
1880 Isaac Munroe St John--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1886 Thomas Anthony Thacher--Died (American Classical Scholar)
1888 Quincy Adams Gillmore--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1891 Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1895 James Lawson Kemper--Died (Major General, CSA)
1897 Walter Winchell--Born (Journalist)
1915 Billie Holiday--Born (Blues Singer)
1917 Panama declared war on Germany
April 8
1143 Comnenus Calo-Joannes (Joannes II)--Died (Byzantine Emperor)
1580 William Herbert--Born (English Poet/3rd Earl of Pembroke)
1828 George Baird Hodge--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1835 Wilhelm Von Humbolt--Died (German Scientist/Explorer/Brother of Alexander)
1864 Jean Jacques Alfred Alexander Mouton-- Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1867 John Selden Roane--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1892 Mary Pickford--Born (Silent Film Actress)
1894 John Edwards--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1897 Thomas Church Haskell Smith--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1898 William Polk (Gotch) Hardeman--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1899 John Wesley Turner--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1905 Cullen Andrews Battle--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
April 9
1483 Edward IV--Died (King of England/Son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York & Cecily Neville, Duchess of York)
1492 Lorenzo de' Medici "Lorenzo the Magnificent"--Died (Italian statesman/Son of Piero de' Medici "Piero The Gouty" & Lucrezia Tornabuoni)
1626 Francis Bacon--Died (English Essayist/Philosopher/Son of Sir Nicholas Bacon and Anne Cooke)
1649 James Scott (Crofts)--Born (1st Duke of Monmouth/Son of Charles II, King of England & Lucy Walter)
1812 Randolph Barnes Marcy--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1826 Thomas Hewson Neill--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1831 James Ronald Chalmers--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman)
1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1881 Martin Witherspoon Gary--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1891 Mary Linskell (pseudonym Stephen Yorke)--Died (English Author)
1892 Charles William Field--Died (Major General, CSA)
1893 Mary Pickford--Born (Actress)
1904 Isabella II (Maria Isabella Louisa)--Died (Queen of Spain)
April 10
1583 Hugo Grotius--Born (Dutch Statesman/Poet)
1601 Mark Alexander Boyd--Died (Sottish Poet)
1630 William Herbert--Died (English Poet/3rd Earl of Pembroke)
1804 Isaac Fletcher Redfield--Born (American Jurist/Author)
1806 Leonidas Polk--Born (Lt. General, CSA)
1807 Anna Amalie--Died (Duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach/Wife of Duke Ernest)
1817 John Cleveland Robinson--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1823 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1827 Lewis "Lew" Wallace--Born (Major General, Union Army/US Minister to Turkey)
1833 James Edward Rains--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1862 William Henry Lamb Wallace--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1891 John Rogers Cooke--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1892 Thomas William Sweeny--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1907 Laurence Simmons Baker--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
April 11
1374 Roger Mortimer--Born (4th Earl of March/6th Earl of Ulster/Son of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March & Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster)
1592 John Eliot--Born (English Statesman/Son of Richard Eliot & Bridget Carswell)
1773 Betsy Ross (Griscom) Married John Ross
1810 Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson--Born(English Assyriologist/Author)
1812 Gottlieb Schick--Died (German Artist)
1839 John Galt--Died (English Author)
1873 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1875 Andrew Jackson Hamilton--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1884 Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas--Died (French Chemist/Author)
1889 Edward Hatch--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1900 Seth Maxwell Barton--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1902 Wade Hampton--Died (Major General, CSA)
April 12
1500 Joachim Camerarius--Born (German Author)
1555 Joanna "The Mad"--Died (Queen of Castile and Leon & Daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella)
1774 George Thacher--Born (Massechusetts Congressman/Jurist)
1777 Henry Clay--Born (American Statesman)
1791 Francis Preston Blair--Born (American Journalist/Politician)
1797 Ernst August Hagen--Born (German Author)
1821 Samuel Greene Arnold--Born (American Historian)
1822 George Gibbs Dibrell--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman)
1828 Charles Foster--Born (Ohio Governor/US Treasury)
1831 Grenville Mellen Dodge--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1861 Fort Sumpter, South Carolina--Attacked
1862 Adley Hogan Gladden--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1864 Thomas Green--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1878 William M Tweed "Boss"--Died (New York City Tammany Hall influencial Democrat)
1879 Richard Taylor--Died (Lt. General, CSA/Son of Zachary Taylor)
1901 Thomas Hart Taylor--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/US Marshal)
1912 Clara Barton--Died (Founder of Red Cross)
1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian Cosmonaut) First Human to travel into outer space
April 13
1366 Richard II--Born (King of England/Son of Edward the Black Prince)
1732 Lord North (Frederick North)--Born (English statesman/2nd Earl of Guilford)
1743 Thomas Jefferson--Born (3rd US President)
1783 Washington Irving--Born (American Author)
1795 James Harper--Born (American Publisher)
1803 John Jason Owen--Died (American Classical Scholar)
1822 Leroy Augustus Stafford--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1839 Domenico Ronconi--Died (Italian Composer)
1843 John Nicholson--Died (English Poet)
1852 Frank Woolworth--Born (Department Store founder)
1894 Joseph Brevard Kershaw--Died (Major General, CSA)
1933 Adelbert Ames--Died (Major General, Union Army/Mississippi Governor US Senator from Mississippi)
April 14
1792 Maximillian Hell--Died (Austrian Astonomer)
1817 Frederick Shearer Stumbaugh--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1820 Harry Thompson Hays--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1830 Davis Tillson--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1832 James Hewett Ledlie--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1857 Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria--Born (Princess of England/Daughter of Queen Victoria)
1894 Henry Warner Slocum--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Congressman)
1896 John Doby Kennedy--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1905 Halbert Eleazer Paine--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Congressman)
1909 Matthew Calbraith Butler--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/US Senator from South Carolina/Major General Spanish-American War)
1922 Adrian Constantine "Cap" Anson--Died (Professional baseball player/Son of Henry Anson & Jeanette Rice)
April 15
1452 Leonardo da Vinci--Born (Italian Artist/Inventor, etc.)
1684 Catherine I of Russia (Martha Skavronsky)--Born(Russian Empress/2nd Wife of Peter the Great/Daughter Of Samuel Skavronsky & Elisabeth Moritz)
1764 Madame de Pompadour (Antoinette Poisson)--Died (Mistree of Louis XV, King of France)
1772 Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire--Born(French Zoologist & Comparative Anatomist)
1797 Louis Adolphe Thiers--Born (French Historian/Statesman)
1820 Evander Mcnair--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1822 Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1832 George Calvert--Born (Founder of the State of Maryland, U.S.A.)
1865 Abraham Lincoln--Died (16th President of U.S.)
1877 Ernst Morita Ludwig Ettmuller--Died (German Philologist)
1889 Charles Kinnaird Graham--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1892 Amelia Blackford Edwards--Died (Author/Egyptologist)
1895 Charles Thomas Campbell--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
April 16
1444 Truce of Tours
1533 William I(The Silent)--Born (Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau)
1612 Abraham Calov--Born (German Theologian/Author)
1645 Jules Hardouin Mansart--Born (French Architect)
1661 Charles Montagu--Born (English Statesman/Poet/1st Earl of Halifax)
1682 John Hadley--Born (English Mathematician)
1786 Sir John Franklin--Born (English Arctic Explorer)
1816 Edward (Old Alleghany) Johnson--Born (Major General, CSA)
1821 Thomas Scott--Died (English Author/Clergyman)
1823 Orlando Bolivar Willcox--Born (Major General, Union Army/Commanded Dept. of Arizona during Apache Wars/Author under the pseudonym Maj. Walter March)
1838 Madame Johanna Henriette Schopenhauer (Trosina)--Died (German Author)
1865 Robert Charles Tyler--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1867 Wilbur Wright--Born (American Inventor & Brother of Orville Wright)
1871 Ebenezer Dumont--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Congressman)
1874 John Thomas Croxton--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Minister to
Bolivia)
1880 Johannes Hubertus Leonardus--Died (Belgium Artist)
April 17
1539 George "The Bearded"--Died (Duke of Saxony/Son of Albert the Brave)
1574 Joachim Camerarius--Died (German Author)
1622 Henry Vaughn & Thomas Vaughn--Born {Twins}(Welsh
Poets/Sons of Thomas Vaughn & Denys Gwillims)
1741 Samuel Chase--Born (Signer of US Declaraion of Independence)
1788 Joseph Gilbert Totten--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1813 Henry Washington Benham--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1833 John Curtis Caldwell--Born(Major General, Union Army/US Minister to Uruguay)
1837 John Pierpont Morgan--Born (Financier/Son of Junius Spencer Morgan & Juliet Pierpont)
1846 Maurice Rouvier--Born (French Statesman)
1852 Adrian Constantine "Cap" Anson--Born (Professional baseball player/Son of Henry Anson & Jeanette Rice)
1861 Philip St George Cocke--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1863 Daniel Smith Donelson--Died (Major General, CSA)
1873 Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy--Died (Russian Artist/Son of Count Pyotr Tolstoy & Elizabeth Barbot-de-Marni)
1893 Irene Castle--Born (Dancer)
1897 Thornton Wilder--Born (Playwright)
1909 Amzi Lorenzo Barber--Died (American Capitalist asphalt industry pioneer/Son Amzi D. Barber & Nancy Irene Bailey)
1917 Second Battle of Gaza (Turks & Britain)
1918 William Holden--Born (Actor)
April 18
1480 Lucrezia Borgia--Born (Daughter of Pope Alexander IV)
1650 Simonds d' Ewes--Died (English Historian & Politician/Son of Paul d' Ewes & Cecelia, heiress of Sir Richard Simonds)
1771 Charles Philip--Born (Austrian Field General & Prince of Schwarzenberg/Son of Johann Nepomuk Anton Schwarzenberg & Marie Eleonore, Countess of Ottingen-Wallerstein)
1796 Johan Wilcke--Died (Swedish Physicist)
1802 Erasmus Darwin--Died (Physician/Grandfather of Charles Darwin/Son of Robert Darwin & Elizabeth Hill)
1857 Clarence Seward Darrow--Born (American Lawyer/Son of Amirius Darrow & Emily Eddy)
1869 John Jason Owen--Died (American Classical Scholar)
1898 Gustave Moreau--Died (French Artist)
1902 Earthquake in Guatamala over 12,000 people Killed
1906 Earthquake in San Francisco 700 people Killed
1917 Second Battle of Gaza (Turks & Britain)
1955 Albert Einstein--Died
April 19
1599 Gabrielle d'Estrees--Died (Mistress of Henry IV, King of France)
1772 David Ricardo--Born (English politician)
1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord (American Revolutionary War)
1821 Mortimer Dormer Leggett--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1824 Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)--Died
1844 Bartolommeo Pacca--Died (Italian Cardinal/Author)
1850 Clayton-Bulwar Treaty (U.S. and Great Britain concerning encroachment of Central America)
1870 Thomas Jefferson Mckean--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1881 Benjamin Disraeli--Died (1st Earl of Beaconsfield/English Statesman/Author/Son of Isaac D'Israeli & Mary Basevi)
1882 Charles Darwin--Died
1892 William Wallace Burns--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1906 Pierre Curie--Died (Physicist/Chemist & Husband of Marie Curie)
1917 Second Battle of Gaza (Turks & Britain)
April 20
1534 Elizabeth Barton (Maid of Kent)--Died beheaded
1755 John Armstrong--Born (American soldier/explorer/Son of Thomas Armstrong of Donagheady, County Tyrone, Ireland & Jane Hamilton {Daughter of Michael Hamilton of Tully, County Londonderry, Ireland)
1769 Joshua Marshman--Born (Baptist Missionary/Orientalist)
1809 John Smith Preston--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1812 George Clinton--Died (American General/Vice President of U.S.)
1824 Alfred Holt Colquitt--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman Georgia Governor)
1827 John Gibbon--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1880 Joseph Warren Revere--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army/Grandson of Paul Revere/Traveler/Author)
1904 Sara Jane (Clarke) Lippincott (pseudonym Grace Greenwood)--Died (American Author)
1908 Dr. F.A. Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole
1910 Samuel Gibbs French--Died (Major General, CSA)
1928 Felix Huston Robertson--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
April 21
1509 Henry VII--Died (King of England/Son of Edmund Tudor & Margaret Beaufort)
1736 Prince Eugene (Francois Eugene de Savote-Carignan)--Died (Austrian General)
1783 Reginald Heber--Born (English prelate/Hymn writer)
1805 James Martineau--Born (English Clergy/Brother of author Harriet
Martineau)
1816 Charlotte Bronte--Born (Author/Sister of Emily and Anne Bronte/Eldest daughter of Patrick Bronte & Maria Branwell)
1834 William Rufus Terrill--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army/Brother of Confederate Gen. James B Terrill)
1866 Jane Baille (Welsh) Carlyle--Died (Wife of Thomas Carlyle)
1876 Thomas Moore Scott--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1878 John James Peck--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1879 John Adams Dix--Died (Union General/US Senator from New York Governor of New York)
1888 William Dwight--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1892 Nathaniel James Jackson--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1893 Richard Lee Turberville Beale--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1897 Richard W Johnson--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1898 Edward Cary Walthall--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/US Senator)
1910 Mark Twain--Died
April 22
1357 John I "The Great"--Born (King of Portugal 1385-1433/Son of Pedro I)
1445 Henry VI (King of England) Married Margaret
1451 Isabella I (The Catholic)--Born (Queen of Castile & Financier of the explorer Christopher Columbus/Wife of Ferdinand of Aargon/Daughter of John II of Castile)
1692 James Stirling--Born (Scottish Mathematician)
1724 Emmanuel Kant--Born
1765 James Grahame--Born (Scottish Poet)
1791 William Linton--Born (English Artist/Author)
1793 George Washington, President of the US, attended the John Bill Ricketts Circus in Philadelphia
1818 Cadwallader Colden Washburn--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1823 Alfred Gibbs--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1826 Battle of Missolonghi (Greek war of Independence/Turkish victory over the Greeks)
1827 William Hopkins Morris--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1831 Alexander McDowell Mccook--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1864 Joseph Gilbert Totten--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1866 Henry Watkins Allen--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/Louisiana Governor)
1902 Egbert Ludovicus Viele--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army/US Congressman/Author)
1908 Ellison Capers--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
April 23
1016 Athelred II "The Unready"--Died (King of the English/Son of Edgar "The Peaceable"/Athelred's birth year c985) Edmund II "Ironside"
succeeded Athelred II "The Unready as King of the English
1464 Joan of France--Born (Duchess of Berry/Duchess Concort of Orleans/Daughter of Louis XI, King of France, & Charoltte of Savoy)
1695 Henry Vaughn--Died (Welsh Poet/Twin Brother of Thomas Vaughn)
1697 Lord George Anson--Born (English Admiral)
1708 Friedrich von Hagedorn--Born (German Poet)
1751 George Elliot--Born (First Earl of Minto)
1791 James Buchanan--Born (15th President of U.S.)
1818 James Anthony Froude--Born (English Historian)
1824 Richard Payne Knight--Died (English Numismatist & Archeologist/Brother of Thomas Andrew Knight)
1850 William Wordsworth--Died (English poet/son of John Wordsworth & Ann Cookson)
1856 Arthur Twining Hadley--Born (American Author/Educator)
1865 James Dearing--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1895 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig--Died (German Physiologist)
1899 Dandridge Mcrae-- Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1918 Guatemala declared war on Germany
April 24
1584 William the Silent of Orange-Nassau--Born (Dutch revolutionary/Prince of Orange/Son of William, Count of Nassau & Juliana, Countess of Stolberg-Wernigerode)
1770 Basil Montagu--Born (English Legal Author/Son of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich)
1807 Charles Ferguson Smith--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1809 Joseph Addison Alexander--Born (Author)
1815 Anthony Trollope--Born (English Author)
1819 Klaus Groth--Born (German Poet)
1822 Erastus Bernard Tyler--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1828 Robert Brank Vance--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1829 George Peabody Estey--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1891 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1899 Richard James "Uncle Dick" Oglesby--Died (Major General, Union Army)
April 25
1215 Louis IX--Born (King of France)
1599 Oliver Cromwell--Born
1753 Richard Boyle--Born (3rd Earl of Burlington,4th Earl of Cork)
1734 Johann Konrad Dippel--Died (German Alchemist & Discoverer of Prussian Blue)
1792 John Keble--Born (English Poet/Brother of Thomas Keble)
1840 Peter Ilitch Tschaikovsky--Born (Russian Composer)
1843 Alice Maud Mary--Born (Princess of England/Daughter of Queen Victoria)
1850 Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz Married Swiss Naturalist Louis Agassiz
1862 Charles Ferguson Smith--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1820 Anna Sewell--Died (English Author of Black Beauty/Daughter of Isaac Sewell & Mary Wright)
1879 Charles Tennyson Turner (Alfred Lord Tennyson's brother but Charles took his Uncle's name of Turner)--Died (English Poet)
1884 (Samuel) Emerson Opdyke--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1894 Robert Seaman Granger--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1907 Hylan Benton Lyon--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
April 26
121 Marcus Aurelius--Born (Roman Emperor/Son of Marcus Annius Verus & Domitia Lucilla)
1538 Gian "Giovanni" Paolo Lamazzo--Born (Italian Artist)
1573 Marie de' Medici--Born (Queen Consort of France/Daughter of Francesco I de'Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany & Johanna, archduchess of Austria)
1648 Peter II--Born (King of Portugal/Son of John IV, King of Portugal, & Luisa de Guzman)
1711 David Hume--Born (Scottish Philosopher/Author)
1785 John James Audubon--Born (American Artist/Naturalist)
1826 Ambrose Ransom (Rans) Wright--Born (Major General, CSA)
1827 Charles Edward Hovey--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1839 Cyrus Hamlin--Born (Major General, Union Army/Son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin)
1920 William Henry Seward Jr.--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army/Son of Secretary of State William H Seward)
April 27
1296 Battle of Dunbar (English under Warrenne Earl of Sussex defeated Scots under Baliol
1656 Jan Van Goyen--Died (Dutch Artist)
1737 Edward Gibbon--Born (English Historian)
1794 James Bruce--Died (Scottish Explorer)
1820 Herbert Spencer--Born (English Philosopher)
1822 Ulysses Simpson Grant--Born (18th President of U.S. & American General)
1835 John Murray Corse--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1839 John Mitford--Died (English Author)
1859 George Washington Doane--Died (American Episcopal Bishop/Author)
1863 Joaa Francisco Lisboa--Died (Brazilian Author)
1879 Alfred Sully--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson--Died
1893 John Murray Corse--Died (Major General, Union Army)
April 28
1442 Edward IV--Born (King of England/Son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York & Cecily Neville, Duchess of York)
1758 James Monroe--Born (5th US President)
1810 Daniel Ullmann--Born (Major General, Union Army
1812 Daniel Henry Rucker--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1815 Andrew Jackson Smith--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1825 James Winning Mcmillan--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1842 Elijah Paine--Died (American Jurist/US Senator from Vermont)
1878 Lionel Barrymore--Born (Actor)
1883 William Montague Browne--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/Author)
1904 Oliver Edwards--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1905 Fitzhugh Lee--Died (Major General, CSA)
1910 Edward Porter Alexander--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
April 29
1380 Catarina de Sienna--Died (Italian Ascetic & Author)
1469 William II (William the Middle)--Born (Landgrave of Hesse/Son of Louis III, "The Frank" of Hesse & Mechthild of Wurttemburg)
1745 Oliver Ellsworth--Born (US Supreme Court Justice)
1810 Thomas Adolphus Trollope--Born (English Author)
1815 Abram Duryeé--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1820 Henry Watkins Allen--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/Louisiana Governor)
1829 Edward Hugessen (Lord Brabourne)--Born (British Politician & Author)
1836 Simon Kenton--Died (American Frontiersman/Son of Mark Kenton Sr. & Mary Miller)
1863 William Randolph Hearst--Born (Newspaper magnate)
1873 Franklin Gardner--Died (Major General, CSA)
1879 Douglas Hancock Cooper--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1891 Armistead Lindsay Long--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1892 William Wells--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1899 Duke Ellington--Born (Band Leader)
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1341 John III of Dreux "The Good"--Died (Duke of Brittany/Son of Arthur II & Mary, Viscountess of Limoges)
1662 Mary II--Born (Queen of England with husband William Prince of Orange)
1770 David Thompson--Born (Canadian Explorer)
1777 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss--Born (Mathematician)
1792 John Montagu--Died (4th Earl of Sandwich/Son of the Viscount of Hinchinbroke, Edward Richard Montagu)
1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty
1804 Richard Redgrave--Born (English Artist/Author)
1805 William Kerley Strong--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1864 William Read Scurry--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1873 David Livingston--Died (African explorer/missionary)
1895 Davis Tillson--Died (Major General, Union Army)