Anniversaries

22nd April 1616 (399 Years)

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, playwright, poet and author of Don Quixote, died.

22nd April 1766 (249 Years)

Madame de Staël, French novelist, essayist, literary theorist, political propagandist, critic and poet, was born.

22nd April 1840 (175 Years)

The French symbolist painter Odilon Redon was born.

22nd April 1917 (98 Years)

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM, AC, one of the Australia's leading artists of the 20th century, was born.

22nd April 1929 (86 Years)

Henry Lerolle died.

22nd April 1938 (77 Years)

Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer, was born.

22nd April 1984 (31 Years)

Ansel Adams, the photographer, died.

23rd April 1516 (499 Years)

The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) was signed in Ingolstadt.

23rd April 1616 (399 Years)

William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, dies.

23rd April 1775 (240 Years)

J.M.W Turner, a British romantic landscape painter, was born.

23rd April 1891 (124 Years)

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, was born.

23rd April 1928 (87 Years)

Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, and dancer, was born.

24th April 1888 (127 Years)

Eastman Kodak was founded.

24th April 1904 (111 Years)

Willem de Kooning was born.

24th April 1913 (102 Years)

The Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.

24th April 1917 (98 Years)

US Emergency Loan Act authorizes issue of $5 billion in bonds at 3.5 percent.

24th April 1931 (84 Years)

Bridget Riley, English painter, one of the foremost exponents of Op art, is born.

24th April 1986 (29 Years)

Wallis Simpson, American socialite and Duchess of Windsor, dies

24th April 1992 (23 Years)

Punch, Britain's oldest satirical magazine, announces its first discontinuation due to massive losses.

25th April 1792 (223 Years)

The guillotine is used for the first time, in the execution of Nicholas-Jacques Pelletier.

25th April 1792 (223 Years)

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, in Strasbourg during the French Revolutionary Wars.

25th April 1916 (99 Years)

Anzac Day was officially celebrated for the first time.

25th April 1917 (98 Years)

Ella Jane Fitzgerald, American jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella, was born.

25th April 1928 (87 Years)

Cy Twombly, American-Italian painter and sculptor, was born.

26th April 1564 (451 Years)

William Shakespeare was born (he was baptised on this date, his actual birth date is still unknown).

26th April 1863 (152 Years)

Charles Haslewood Shannon, lithographer and painter was born.

26th April 1958 (57 Years)

Final run of the Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

27th April 1791 (224 Years)

Samuel Morse, American painter and co-inventor of Morse code, is born.

27th April 1822 (193 Years)

Ulysses Simpson Grant, Civil War General and 18th US president, is born.

27th April 1840 (175 Years)

Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

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