Events on 26 April 42
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The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
Year 1564
Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).
Year 1777
Legend tells that Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
Year 1794
Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
Year 1802
Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
Year 1803
Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
Year 1805
First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
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Birthdays on 26 April 183
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Deaths on 26 April 82
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