* April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader ( b. 1757 )

* April 1 – Benjamin Pierce, U. S. politician ( b. 1757 )

* April 5 – Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, Governor of Newfoundland ( b. 1757 )

* April 11 – John ' Mad Jack ' Fuller, English philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences ( b. 1757 )

* April 7 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician ( b. 1757 )

*( 7 June 1757 – 3 April 1761 ) Miss Georgiana Spencer

The first settlement at the site of what is now Menard was the Spanish Mission San Sabá and the Presidio of San Luís de Amarillas, both established in April 1757.

John Fuller ( 20 February 1757 – 11 April 1834 ), better known as " Mad Jack " Fuller ( although he himself preferred to be called " Honest John " Fuller ), was Squire of the hamlet of Brightling, in Sussex ( now East Sussex ), and is well known as a builder of follies, and as a philanthropist, patron of the arts and sciences, and a supporter of slavery.

The first design, commissioned in 1757, with construction begun with the King's ceremonial placing of the cornerstone, April 3, 1763, was halted in 1764 ; that first design, by Pierre Contant d ' Ivry, was based on Jules Hardouin Mansart Late Baroque church of Les Invalides, with a dome surmounting a Latin cross.

Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney ( 3 February 1757 – 25 April 1820 ) was a French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician.

On 25 February 1754 Taylor laid the first stone of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, opened 12 May 1756, and described by John Wesley ( 23 December 1757 ) as ‘ perhaps the most elegant one in all Europe ,’ and too fine for ‘ the old coarse gospel .’ In his opening sermon, Taylor, who had received ( 6 April ) the diploma ( dated 20 January ) of D. D.

The French, who were allied with Austria, Russia, Sweden and Saxony during the Seven Years ' War, invaded Germany in April 1757 with two armies, altogether about 100, 000 soldiers.

* April 10-Karl Leonhard Reinhold, philosopher ( born 1757 )

* William Pitt the Elder MP: 4 December 1756-6 April 1757

Devonshire supported the Duke of Newcastle after Henry Pelham's death in 1754 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 2 April 1755 until 3 January 1757 in Newcastle's administration.

He was intensely disliked by George II, who dismissed both him and Pitt from office in April 1757.

He suspended his duties temporarily on 5 April 1757, when appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, due to an old custom that the Lord Chief Justice took the position when it was empty.

After a few months this government collapsed in April 1757.

Deborah was married in Stoughton, Massachusetts to Benjamin Gannett ( 1757 – 1837 ), a farmer from Sharon, Massachusetts, on April 7, 1785.

In April 1757, the same band of Acadian and Mi ' kmaq partisans raided Fort Edward and Fort Cumberland near present-day Jolicure, New Brunswick, killing and scalping two men and taking two prisoners.

In April 1757, a band of Acadian and Mi ' kmaq partisans raided a warehouse near Fort Edward, killed thirteen British soldiers, took what provisions they could carry and set fire to the building.

* April Alliston, ‘ Lee, Harriet ( 1757 / 8 – 1851 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 13 November 2006

The Battle of Reichenberg was a battle of the Seven Years ' War, fought on April 21, 1757 near the town of Reichenberg ( Czech: Liberec ) in Bohemia.

On 21 April 1757, he became Colonel and Major-General of the British 61st Foot Regiment-The Glorious Glosters.

* April 28 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras ( b. 1653 )

Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers ( 14 April 1827 – 4 May 1900 ) was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist.

Pitt Rivers ", Past-Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society, 34 ( April )

* Kapapamahchakwew ( Kā-papāmahcahkwêw, Kapapa Machatiwe, Papamahchakwayo, French: ‘ Esprit Errant ’, better known as Wandering Spirit, war chief of the Plains Cree under Mistahimaskwa, born 1845 near Jackfish Lake, Saskatchewan, committed on 2 April 1885, the so-called Frog Lake massacre, killed the Indian Agent Thomas Quinn and eight whites and one Métis, surrendered in July at Fort Pitt, was hanged on 27 November 1885 in Battleford, Saskatchewan )

On April 15, 1885, 200 Cree warriors descended on Fort Pitt.

" The political theory of William Pitt the Younger ," History, April 1998, Vol.

In response, Colonel Daniel Brodhead of the American forces led an expedition out of Fort Pitt and on 19 April 1781 destroyed the settlement of Coshocton.

British Prime Minister William Pitt spent 1804 and 1805 in a flurry of diplomatic activity geared towards forming a new coalition against France, and by April 1805, Britain and Russia had signed an alliance.

On 18 April, Fox spoke in the Commons – together with William Wilberforce, Pitt and Burke – in favour of a measure to abolish the slave trade, but – despite their combined rhetorical talents – the vote went against them by a majority of 75.

He reviewed Curran's Speeches, Carlyle's Life of Cromwell, a pamphlet by Isaac Butt on The Protection of Home Industry, The Age of Pitt and Fox, and later on The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland, edited by Denis Florence MacCarthy ( 4 April 1846 ); The Industrial History of Free Nations, by Torrens McCullagh, and Father Meehan's The Confederation of Kilkenny ( 8 August 1846 ).

In April 2001, Aronofsky entered negotiations with Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow to direct a then-untitled science fiction film, with Brad Pitt in the lead role.

After Pitt delivered a stinging attack on the government's defence measures on 25 April, Canning launched his own attack on Addington, which made Addington furious.

On 30 April Lord Eldon, the Lord Chancellor, asked Pitt to submit a new administration to the King.

* April 13-Christopher Pitt, poet and translator ( born 1699 )

" He was on bad terms with his younger brother, George Grenville, when the latter became first lord of the treasury in April 1763, and he had no place in that ministry ; but the brothers were reconciled before 1765, when Temple refused to join the government and persuaded Pitt to refuse likewise.

In April 1754 Townshend was transformed from the position of a member of the Board of Trade, which he had held from 1749, to that of a Lord of the Admiralty, but at the close of 1755 his passionate attack against the policy of the ministry, an attack which shared in popular estimation with the scathing denunciations of Pitt, the supreme success of Single-Speech Hamilton, and the hopeless failure of Lord Chesterfield's illegitimate son, caused his resignation.

Proposals Pitt made in April 1785 to redistribute seats from the " rotten boroughs " to London and the counties were defeated in the House of Commons by 248 votes to 174.

Proposals Pitt made in April 1785 to redistribute seats from the " rotten boroughs " to London and the counties were defeated in the House of Commons by 248 votes to 174.

* Pitt County: William Robeson, named county entry taker, seat declared vacant April 27, 1778 ; John Simpson elected to replace Robeson, took office August 8, elected to Council of State, resigned August 18 ; James Gorham elected to replace Simpson, took office January 21, 1779

Thomas Pitt ( 5 July 1653 – 28 April 1726 ), born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife, was a British merchant involved in trade with India.

Samuel Clement Fessenden ( March 7, 1815 – April 18, 1882 ) was a United States Congressman from Maine, son of abolitionist Samuel Fessenden, and brother of Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden and Congressman T. A. D. Fessenden.

In response, Colonel Daniel Brodhead led an expedition out of Fort Pitt and on 19 April 1781 destroyed Coshocton.