On 24 April 1826 over 1, 000 men and women, many armed, gathered at Whinney Hill in Clayton-le-Moors to listen to a speaker from where they marched on Sykes ’ s Mill at Higher Grange Lane, near the site of the modern police station and Magistrate ’ s Courts, and smashed over 60 looms.

By the time David died, the painting had been completed and the commissioner Ambroise Firmin-Didot brought it back to Paris to include it in the exhibition " Pour les grecs " that he had organised and which opened in Paris in April 1826.

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

* April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, author of the Declaration of American Independence ( d. 1826 )

* April 18 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( b. 1826 )

* April 1, 1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

Together, Wilhelm and Henriette had four children: Jacob Grimm ( 3 April 1826 – 15 December 1826 ), Herman Friedrich Grimm ( 6 January 1828 – 16 June 1901 ), Rudolf Georg Grimm ( 31 March 1830 – 13 November 1889 ), and Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie ( 21 August 1832 – 9 February 1919 ).

Weber accepted the invitation, and in 1826 he travelled to England, to finish the work and conduct the premiere on 12 April.

* 6 April 1818 – 12 November 1826 ( in the UK ) His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony

The third attempt of Christian missionaries were recorded in April 1826, when two Tahitian London Missionaries were detained by Tupou the chief of Nuku ' alofa.

Louis Bonaparte was also supposedly the father of an illegitimate son, François de Castelvecchio, ( 26 April 1826 – 29 May 1869 ).

Gustave Moreau ( 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898 ) was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures.

Fountain County was officially created on December 30, 1825, the act taking effect on April 1, 1826 ; the boundaries of the county have not changed since that time.

A century later, at a town meeting on 3 April 1826, selectmen voted to ask the General Assembly to annex Mansfield to Tolland County.

Fountain County was formed on April 1, 1826.

Ibrahim's forces then moved onto the Greek mainland, capturing, despite a heroic Greek defence, the pivotal stronghold of Missolonghi in April 1826.

A protocol centred on this proposal and envisaging the powers ' mediation was signed by Britain and Russia in April 1826.

Portions of the township were taken to form Pemberton borough ( December 15, 1826 ), Pemberton Township ( March 10, 1846 ), North Hanover Township ( April 12, 1905 ) and Wrightstown ( March 4, 1918 ).

Dover was incorporated as a village in 1826 and on April 1, 1869 as a town.

* Peter Bouck Borst ( 23 June 1826 – 24 April 1882 ) was an active participant in the mid-19th century development of Page County, Virginia, serving as a lawyer, county delegate to Virginia's Secession Convention of 1861, and president of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.

On the death of Dr Ryland, Hall was invited to return to the pastorate of Broadmead chapel, Bristol, and as the peace of the congregation at Leicester had been to some degree disturbed by a controversy regarding several cases of discipline, he resolved to accept the invitation, and removed there in April 1826.

On 31 December 1864, in Moscow, Dumas married Nadjeschda von Knorring ( 1826 – April 1895 ), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and widow of Alexander, Prince Naryschkine.

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

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially inscribed bullfighting on a list enumerating the country's cultural heritage, a decision which Bardot is currently publicly contesting.

On the latter front Marshal Vendôme defeated the Imperial army at Calcinato on 19 April, pushing the Imperialists back in confusion ( French forces were now in a position to prepare for the long-anticipated siege of Turin ).

Barcelonnette and the Ubaye Valley remained under French sovereignty until the second Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis on 3 April 1559.

The decisive colonial battle for Chad was fought on April 22, 1900 at Battle of Kousséri between forces of French Major Amédée-François Lamy and forces of the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.

A mutual defense accord signed with France in April 1961 provides for the stationing of French Armed Forces troops in Côte d ' Ivoire.

Prince Eugene of Savoy ( French: François-Eugène de Savoie, German: Eugen von Savoyen, Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano ; 18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736 ), was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.

Napoleon relinquished the title of Emperor of the French on 6 April and again on 11 April 1814.

Since 3 May 1814, the Sovereign Principality of Elba was created a miniature non-hereditary Monarchy under the exiled French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon I was allowed, by the treaty of Fontainebleau with ( 27 April ), to enjoy, for life, the imperial title.

Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane, sometimes Édouard Pozerski ( 20 April 1875 – 26 January 1964 ) was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer.

French aircraft designer Raymond Saulnier patented a practical device in April 1914, but trials were unsuccessful because of the propensity of the machine gun employed to hang fire due to unreliable ammunition.

Pierre-Félix Guattari ( ) ( April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992 ) was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and semiotician ; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy.

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

From 1882 until his capture, Samori Ture, ruler of the Wassoulou Empire, fought the French colonial army, defeating them on several occasions, including a notable victory at Woyowayanko ( 2 April 1882 ), in the face of French heavy artillery.

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

Between March and April 2009, 150 artists exhibited 300 pieces of graffiti at the Grand Palais in Paris — a clear acceptance of the art form into the French art world.

In an effort to take advantage of the chaos ensuing from the French Revolution, Britain attempted to seize Guadeloupe in 1794 and held it from 21 April until December 1794, when Victor Hugues obliged the English general to surrender.

The first use of poison gas on the Western Front was on 22 April 1915, by the Germans at Ypres, against Canadian and French colonial troops.

On 25 April 1915, a force of British Empire and French troops landed at multiple places along the peninsula.

In Conrad's words, regarding Heart of Darkness: In a letter to Henry-Durand Darvay, dated April 10th 1902, Joseph Conrad wrote ( French: translated below ):