About the day » Saturday April 26, 1738Calender converter

• Bart Pieters van der Zon, Lisse
• Aart Jong de, Neder-Hardinxveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1821)
• Cnelia Sijdenbos, Wassenaar
• Adrianus, Jacobus Boom(s), Didam, Gelderland,Nl
• Cornelia Soldaat, Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Jacobus Boom, Didam
• Cornelia Leendertsdr Soldaat, dirksland (goeree overflakkee) († 1805)
• Aart de JONGH, Hardinxveld
• Bartelomeus Pieters van der Zon, Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1815)
• Bleilevens Bleijlevens, Simpelveld (L

• Jan van Leeuwen
• Maria Tops (49), Zeelst, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Maria Gerardus TOPS (49), Zeelst
• Dirk Dirks Dikkeboer, Ransdorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoine De Hennin (80), Herlies, 59134, Nord, FRANCE
• Marie Catherine HESPEL (68), Tourcoing, 59599, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Marc CHOUPAULT (75), Ploeuc-sur-Lié, 22203, Côtes d'Armor, Bretagne, France
• Lodewijck BEECKHUYSEN, Rotterdam
• Henrina van der Velden (3), Delft, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catrin Raet, Wommelgem

• 1697 » Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer († 1754)
• 1710 » Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic († 1796)
• 1718 » Esek Hopkins, American commander († 1802)
• 1774 » Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist († 1853)
• 1782 » Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily († 1866)
• 1785 » John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter († 1851)
• 1787 » Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian († 1862)
• 1798 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer († 1863)
• 1801 » Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State († 1889)
• 1804 » Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician († 1876)

• 1686 » Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (b. 1622)
• 1716 » John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1651)
• 1784 » Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
• 1789 » Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)
• 1809 » Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 7 » A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
• April 15 » Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
• May 24 » John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
• May 25 » A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
• July 15 » Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
• July 20 » Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.

The temperature on April 26, 1738 was about 9.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: regen en zeer betrokken.