On April 26, history records 42 notable events, 183 famous births and 82 deaths, spanning the years 1336 to 1805.
Events on this day include: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. (1336); The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. (1478).
Notable people born on April 26 include Marcus Aurelius (121), Hisham I of Córdoba (757), Al-Hadi (764).
Notable figures who died on this day include Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (499), Richarius (645), Muawiyah I (680).
Events on 26 April 42
See all →The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).
Legend tells that Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
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.
Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
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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