47941 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Flag Day (Swaziland) |
47942 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Freedom Day (Portugal) |
47943 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Liberation Day (Italy) |
47944 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Malaria Awareness Day (International) |
47945 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Military Foundation Day (North Korea) |
47946 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Parental Alienation Awareness Day |
47947 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Red Hat Society Day |
47948 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Robigalia, celebrated on 25 Aprilis. (Roman Empire) |
47949 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Rogation Day ("Major Rogation Day") (Roman Catholic Church) |
47950 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | Sinai Liberation Day (Egypt) |
47951 | April 25 | Holiday and observance | The latest possible date for Easter Sunday (last in 1943, next in 2038) |
47952 | April 26 | Event | 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. |
47953 | April 26 | Event | 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. |
47954 | April 26 | Event | 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown). |
47955 | April 26 | Event | 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. |
47956 | April 26 | Event | 1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. |
47957 | April 26 | Event | 1777 - Sibyl Ludington, aged 16, rides 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British. |
47958 | April 26 | Event | 1802 – 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 co |
47959 | April 26 | Event | 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist. |
47960 | April 26 | Event | 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. |
47961 | April 26 | Event | 1865 – 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. |
47962 | April 26 | Event | 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia. |
47963 | April 26 | Event | 1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded |
47964 | April 26 | Event | 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. |
47965 | April 26 | Event | 1925 – 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. |
47966 | April 26 | Event | 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. |
47967 | April 26 | Event | 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. |
47968 | April 26 | Event | 1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead. |
47969 | April 26 | Event | 1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden. |
47970 | April 26 | Event | 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. |