WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. APRIL
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Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. (26. April 1336)

The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. (26. April 1478)

Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown). (26. April 1564)

English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. (26. April 1607)

A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. (26. April 1721)

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. (26. April 1802)

Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist. (26. April 1803)

First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. (26. April 1805)

American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states. (26. April 1865)

Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia. (26. April 1865)

The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. (26. April 1923)

Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. (26. April 1925)

The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. (26. April 1933)

Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. (26. April 1937)

Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead. (26. April 1942)

Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. (26. April 1944)

Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. (26. April 1944)

World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. (26. April 1945)

World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita. (26. April 1945)

Naperville train disaster kills 47. (26. April 1946)