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In April 1812 Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington placed him at the head of the famous Light Division, which consisted of the 1 / 43rd and 1 / 52nd Light Infantry, 95th Rifles, and 1st and 3rd Portuguese Caçadores.
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Official persecution ended in 1787 ; a faculty of Protestant theology was established at Montauban in 1808, and the Lausanne seminary was finally closed on 18 April 1812.
* 1812 – Battle of Badajoz ( March 16 – April 6 ) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
* April 4, 1812 – U. S. President James Madison enacts a 90-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
* April 30, 1812 – Louisiana is admitted as the 18th U. S. state.
* April 29 – Hiram Cronk, last surviving veteran of the War of 1812 ( d. 1905 )
* April 27 – War of 1812 – Battle of York: United States troops raid, destroy, but do not hold the capital of Ontario, York ( present day Toronto, Ontario ).
On April 6, 1812 a band of Winnebago Indians murdered Liberty White, an American, and John B. Cardin, a French Canadian, at a farm called Hardscrabble that was located on the South Branch of the Chicago River in the area now called Bridgeport.
In April 1812, Britain, Russia and Sweden signed secret agreements directed against Napoleon.
It was renamed Georgetown on 29 April 1812 in honour of King George III.
It was granted town status on April 9, 1812.
An Act of Parliament was obtained on 5 May 1812, which authorised the North Walsham & Dilham Canal, but work on its construction did not start until April 1825.
Essex is one of the few American towns to ever be attacked by a foreign power ; this occurred on April 8, 1814, and the economic losses were among the largest sustained by the United States during the War of 1812.
The original plat of the town of Elizabeth was recorded on April 17, 1812.
George Clinton ( July 26, 1739 April 20, 1812 ) was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
In 1812, Mount Tambora entered a period of high activity, with its climactic eruption being the catastrophic explosive event of April 1815.
* The Insurrection of the Papers ( Morning Chronicle, 23 April 1812 )
The disturbances in Stalybridge culminated with a night of violent rioting on 20 April 1812
Kaspar Hauser ( 30 April 1812 (?
It stated that his name was Kaspar, that he was born on 30 April 1812 and that his father, a cavalryman of the 6th regiment, was dead.
On 20 April 1812, a " large crowd of riotous individuals " compelled local retailers to sell foods at a loss, whilst on the same day Luddites numbering in their thousands, many of whom were from Oldham, attacked a cotton mill in nearby Middleton.
* April 27-Sigismond Thalberg, pianist and composer ( b. 1812 )
* April 10-Emilie Mayer, composer ( b. 1812 )
Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt ( 26 September 1812, Berlin-10 April 1887 ) was a German historian.
* John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden ( 26 March 1807 – 8 April 1812 )
* Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth ( 8 April 1812 – 11 June 1812 )
April and Arthur
Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.
Arthur died on 2 April 1502 ; Catherine recovered to find herself a widow.
Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads: " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.
An Irish-British co-production, written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes.
A male Ivory-bill leaving the nest as the female returns, this and the following photos were taken in Singer Tract, Louisiana, April 1935 by Arthur A. Allen
After Richard's death on 6 April 1199 there were two potential claimants to the Angevin throne: John, whose claim rested on being the sole surviving son of Henry II, and young Arthur of Brittany, who held a claim as the son of Geoffrey, John's elder brother.
Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.
John Arthur Brabham was born on 2 April 1926 in Hurstville, then a commuter town outside Sydney, Australia.
Sorrow ( December 1968 ), The Who's Tommy ( April 1969 ) and The Kinks ' Arthur ( September 1969 ).
Eckstein, Arthur M. Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome University of California Press ( 1 April 2009 ) ISBN 978-0-520-25992-8, p. 167.
* The Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award on April 20, 2009 for lifetime achievement as an inventor and futurist in computer-based technologies.
* April 5 – Arthur " Bomber " Harris, British air marshall.
* April 19 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician ( d. 1883 )
* April 27 – Arthur L. Bristol, American admiral ( b. 1886 )
* April 22 – Arthur Edmund Carewe, Armenian-American actor ( b. 1884 )
* April 27 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( born 1863 )
* April 15 – Arthur Lowe, British actor ( b. 1915 )
* April 15 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist ( b. 1773 )
* April 13 – Arthur Fadden, Australian Prime Minister ( d. 1973 )
* April 9 – Arthur Batanides, American actor ( d. 2000 )
* April 13 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer ( d. 1917 )
* April 14 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral ( b. c. 1648 )
* April 2 – Arthur Dobbs, Irish politician and governor of the Province of North Carolina ( d. 1765 )
* April 10 – Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier ( b. 1666 )
* April 6 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman ( b. 1614 )
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