Phillip played a leading part in the capture of the Spanish ship San Agustín ( 1768 ), on 19 April 1777, off Santa Catarina.

Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Braunschweig ( Brunswick ), in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, now part of Lower Saxony, Germany, as the son of poor working-class parents.

* April 14 – Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician ( b. 1777 )

* April 2 – Hezekiah Niles, American editor and publisher ( b. 1777 )

* April 21 – Barbara Ann Spooner Wilberforce, Wife of British Abolitionist William Wilberfoce ( b. 1777 )

* April 11 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest ( b. 1777 )

In the midst of preparations for sending help to France, and in the atmosphere of the first wave of libelles, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph came to call on his sister and brother-in-law on 18 April 1777, the subsequent six-week visit in Versailles a part of the attempt to figure out why their marriage had not been consummated.

Anthony Wayne left Ticonderoga in April 1777 to join Washington's army ; he reported to Washington that " all was well ", and that the fort " can never be carried, without much loss of blood ".

Henry Clay, Sr. ( April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852 ), was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives.

Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777, at the Clay homestead in Hanover County, Virginia in a story-and-a-half frame house.

Tryon and Henry Duncan led a fleet of 26 ships carrying 2, 000 men to Westport's Compo Beach to raid Continental Army supply depots in Danbury on April 22, 1777.

Though they arrived too late to save Danbury from burning, the elder Ludington and the New York militia helped support the Danbury troops and ensuing engagement of the British known as the Battle of Ridgefield on April 27, 1777.

At dawn on April 13, 1777, Hessian Captain Ewald's assault over the Queens Bridge spanning the Raritan River between South Boundbrook and Boundbrook was pinned down by " murderous fire " from the American soldiers stationed at half moon battery.

Keillers ' well-known claim to have ' invented ' orange marmalade in 1797 is debunked by such references as " My wife has made marmalade of oranges for you " in James Boswell's letter to Dr Johnson of 24 April 1777.

On April 26 – 27, 1777, the British under Major General William Tryon burned and looted the city.

On 20 April 1777, he sailed for America, disguised as a woman, leaving his pregnant wife in France.

In April 1777, Howard's sister died leaving him £ 15, 000 and her house.

While at Morristown, New Jersey, he was named a deputy to the muster master-general on April 10, 1777, and he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Henry Kater ( 16 April 1777 – 26 April 1835 ) was an English physicist of German descent.

* 1777 – Battle of Bound Brook ( April 13 )

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto PC ( 23 April 1751 – 21 June 1814 ), known as Sir Gilbert Elliott between 1777 and 1797 and as The Lord Minto between 1797 and 1813, was a Scottish politician diplomat.

This uncertainty is highlighted by a letter sent by Germain to Howe, dated April 2, 1777, in which he approved Howe's plan for Philadelphia, but also stressed that " it will be executed in time for you to co-operate with the army ordered to proceed from Canada and put itself under your command.

Schuyler took the measure in April 1777 of sending a large regiment under Colonel Peter Gansevoort to rehabilitate Fort Stanwix in the upper Mohawk valley as a step in defending against British movements in that area.

In April 1819, Sismondi married a Welshwoman, Jessie Allen ( 1777 – 1853 ), whose sister, Catherine Allen, was the wife of Sir James Mackintosh and another sister, Elizabeth Allen, was the wife of Josiah Wedgwood II and mother of Emma Wedgwood.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

The seasonal adjustment takes into account such factors as Easter was on April 2 this year, two weeks earlier than in 1960, and pre-Easter buying was pushed into March.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

It was a Saturday evening in April with a mist-like rain, and I was a little high on the good taste of life.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

On April 9, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and the war was effectively over.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.