* April 28 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal ( b. 1745 )

* April 29 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier ( d. 1745 )

The most significant incident was the capture of the French Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island ( Île Royale ) by an expedition ( 29 April – 16 June 1745 ) of colonial militia organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, commanded by William Pepperrell of Maine ( then part of Massachusetts ), and assisted by a Royal Navy fleet.

During 1745 the New England expedition which took Louisburg ( 30 April – 16 June ) was covered by a British naval force, but little else was accomplished by the naval efforts of any of the belligerents.

The fort was captured by the Jacobites in April 1745, just prior to the Battle of Culloden.

Facing increasingly bold Spanish privateer raids, the General Assembly of North Carolina colony in April 1745 authorized the construction of " Johnston's Fort " near the mouth of the Cape Fear River.

Col. Charles, 13th Lord Ross of Hawkhead and 15th of Balnagowan was killed in 1745 leading some members of the clan at the Battle of Fontenoy fighting against the French on 30 April 1745.

I have with great difficulty made him correct some of the grosser faults in the composition ..." Handel directed two performances at Covent Garden in 1745, on 9 and 11 April, and then set the work aside for four years.

Saxe went on the offensive in April 1745 with a large French army, looking to build on the previous year's gains.

The Duke of Cumberland – the nominal commander-in-chief of the united Allied force – arrived at The Hague on 18 April 1745 ; two days later he arrived at Brussels where the Allied army was to concentrate.

Siege of Tournai by Louis XV of April 30 to May 22, 1745 by Blarenberghe | Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe.

In April 1745 he was promoted to lieutenant.

Philippe Pinel ( 20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826 ) was a French physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy.

James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde KG KT ( 29 April 1665 – 16 November 1745 ) was an Irish statesman and soldier.

Conyers Place of Dorchester, who died 26 April 1745, aged 38 ;

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour ( 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764, ) was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.

In April 1745, Swedenborg was dining in a private room at a tavern in London.

According to David Hunter, the Count contributed some of the songs to L ' incostanza delusa, an opera performed at the Haymarket Theatre in London on all but one of the Saturdays from the 9th of February to the 20th of April 1745.

* HMS Tryton was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1745 and burned on 28 April 1758 to avoid capture by the French.

He was licensed to practice law in April 1741 and his success before the county courts caused him to become a member of the General Court in October 1745.

By early 1745 he was living in Augsburg and then on 24 April 1745 he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Electoral orchestra at the court of Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein, Prince-Elector of Mainz.

William Dawes, Jr. ( April 6, 1745 – February 25, 1799 ) was one of several men and a woman who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution.

After Derby refused permission for Burgoyne to marry Charlotte, they eloped together and married without his permission on April 1751.

The portion of Boulevard Street in Hudson Falls, as well as the segment of Feeder Street south of Boulevard, was given to Washington County on April 1 of the following year in return for ownership and maintenance over all of Dix and Burgoyne Avenues north of NY 196.

On April 28 he moved to Los Angeles where he had family and remained there until May when, suspected by local Union authorities, he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.

Alexios attempted to organize a resistance to the new regime from Adrianople and then Mosynopolis, where he was joined by the later usurper Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos in April 1204, after the definitive fall of Constantinople to the crusaders and the establishment of the Latin Empire.

His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.

Bahá ' u ' lláh was eventually released from prison but ordered into exile, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá then eight joined his father on the journey to Baghdad in the winter ( January to April ) of 1853.

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

In April 1892, 10, 000 of the Batetela, under the command of Gongo Lutete, joined forces with Dhanis in a campaign against the Swahili-Arab leaders Sefu and Mohara.

There were certainly castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in 1558, although not described as such: on 27 April of that year, Hernando Bustamante, a Spaniard from Palencia, was admitted ( the first castrati so termed who joined the Sistine choir were Pietro Paolo Folignato and Girolamo Rossini, admitted in 1599 ).

In April 1922, while still in high school, he joined the newly founded Saxony Ornithologists ’ Association.

Yet his colleague Heidegger was elected Rektor of the university on April 21 – 22, and joined the Nazi party.

France preemptively declared war on Austria ( 20 April 1792 ) and Prussia joined on the Austrian side a few weeks later.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

On 3 April 2009, Norway too joined the programme pledging € 68. 9 million toward development costs and allowing its companies to bid for the construction contracts.

The United States joined with the Allies in April 1917.

He joined HMS Colossus in April 1886 and was then in charge of the HMS Excellent experimental department from 6 December 1886 to 10 May 1888.

After seeing his opening with the death of Emperor Otto II, Boniface joined the league of Greeks and Saracens and headed for Rome in April 984.

Several more towns joined on 3 April, although Bütow ( Bytów ) did not.

In April 1629 he joined the University of Franeker, living at the Sjaerdemaslot, and the next year, under the name " Poitevin ", he enrolled at the Leiden University to study mathematics with Jacob Golius and astronomy with Martin Hortensius.

In the spring of 1968 Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader, joined by Thorwald Proll and Horst Söhnlein, set fire to two department stores in Frankfurt on 2 April as a protest against the Vietnam war.

They were joined by South Africa in April 2008.

Ryder had written three letters to The Daily Telegraph in April and May 1969 with criticisms of animal experiments, based on incidents he had witnessed in laboratories, and thereafter joined a group of intellectuals and writers in Oxford – the nascent animal rights community, now known as the Oxford Group.

The band embarked on their first tour of the U. S. in April 1983, joined by Bill Sullivan, a young security guard, as roadie, who approached the band after a show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

On April 23, 1968, the United Methodist Church was created when the Evangelical United Brethren Church ( represented by Bishop Reuben H. Mueller ) and The Methodist Church ( represented by Bishop Lloyd Christ Wicke ) joined hands at the constituting General Conference in Dallas, Texas.

On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate States of America, which chose Richmond as its capital.

The first mention of the Tervingi occurs in a eulogy of the emperor Maximian ( 285 – 305 ), delivered in or shortly after 291 ( perhaps at Trier on 20 April 292 ) and traditionally ascribed to Claudius Mamertinus, which says that the " Tervingi, another division of the Goths " ( Tervingi pars alia Gothorum ) joined with the Taifali to attack the Vandals and Gepidae.

In April 1895, Dickson left Edison's employ and joined the Latham outfit.