April Fools' Dayvar January = [ in many countries.
William Harvey, English physician, born 1578.
Otto von Bismarck, Prussian statesman, born 1815.
First federal U.S. mint established, 1792
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy-tale writer, born 1805.
Emile Zola, French novelist, born 1840
Washington Irving, American author, born 1783.
John Burroughs, American naturalist, born 1837.
First pony express service began in the United States, 1860.
National Day, Senegal.
Dorothea Lynde Dix, American prison and asylum reformer, born 1802.
United States Congress adopted the flag with 13 stripes and with 1 star for each state, 1818.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe, 1614.
Sir Joseph Lister, English surgeon, born 1827.
Algernon Swinburne, English poet, born 1837.
Chakri Day, Thailand.
Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830.
Robert Peary, American explorer, reached what he claimed was the North Pole, 1909.
William Wordsworth, English poet, born 1770.


Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival) in Japan celebrates the birth of the Buddha.
Henry Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career major league home run record, 1974.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, born 1806.
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in the American Civil War, 1865.
Charles P. Steinmetz, German American physicist and electrical engineer, born 1865.
King James I chartered the Virginia companies of London and Plymouth (also known as the London Company and the Plymouth Company), 1606.
United States patent system established, 1790.
Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for the first time, 1814.
Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. chief justice, born 1862.

The American Civil War began at Fort Sumter, 1861.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died, 1945.
Yuri Gagarin, Soviet astronaut, became the first person to orbit the earth, 1961.
The Edict of Nantes gave religious toleration to Huguenots in France, 1598.
Thomas Jefferson, third U.S. president, born 1743.
F. W. Woolworth, American merchant, born 1852.,
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist, born 1629.
Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary, 1828.
John Wilkes Booth shot U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, 1865.
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and scientist, born 1452.
American Revolutionary War declared over, 1783.
Henry James, American novelist, born 1843.
Anatole France, French novelist, born 1844.
Wilbur Wright, American inventor, born 1867.

Independence Day, Syria.
Samuel Chase, American jurist, born 1741.
J. P. Morgan, American financier, born 1837.
Independence Day, Zimbabwe.
Famous ride of Paul Revere, American patriot, 1775.
San Francisco earthquake and fire began, 1906.
Independence Day, Venezuela.
American Revolution began, 1775.

Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, born 1889.


Rome founded, according to tradition, 753 B.C.
Friedrich Frobel, German founder of the kindergarten system, born 1782.
Charlotte Bronte, English novelist, born 1816.
Earth Day celebrated in many countries.
Isabella I, Spanish queen and patron of Christopher Columbus, born 1451.
Henry Fielding, English novelist, born 1707.
Traditional birth date of William Shakespeare, 1564.
James Buchanan, 15th U.S. president, born 1791.
Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, born 1891.
American Library of Congress established, 1800.


William I, Prince of Orange, born 1533 (April 16 by the calendar then in use).
Oliver Cromwell, English general, born 1599.
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, born 1874.
Union Day, Tanzania.
John James Audubon, American ornithologist and painter, born 1785.
Alfred Krupp, German industrialist, born 1812.
Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, born 1791.
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. president, born 1822.
Togo became independent, 1960.
James Monroe, fifth U.S. president, born 1758.
Maryland ratified the U.S. Constitution, 1788.
Mutiny against British naval captain William Bligh on his ship, the Bounty, 1789.
Lorado Taft, American sculptor, born 1860.
William Randolph Hearst, American publisher, born 1863.
Sir Thomas Beecham, British conductor, born 1879.
Walpurgis Night (Feast of Valborg), Sweden.
George Washington inaugurated as the first U.S. president, 1789.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide, 1945.
