What is April 26?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1950 === *[[1315]] &ndash; [[Robert I of Scotland|Robert the Bruce]] opens the first [[Scottish Parliament]]. *[[1478]] &ndash; The [[Pazzi]] attack [[Lorenzo de' Medici]] and kill his brother [[Giuliano di Piero de' Medici|Giuliano]] during High Mass in the [[Florence]] Cathedral. *[[1564]] &ndash; [[William Shakespeare]] is baptised in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], [[Warwickshire]], [[England]]. *[[1607]] &ndash; [[England|English]] colonists of the [[Jamestown settlement]] make landfall at [[Cape Henry]], [[Virginia]]. *[[1721]] &ndash; A massive [[earthquake]] hits [[Tabriz]], present-day [[Iran]]. *[[1802]] &ndash; [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] signs a general [[amnesty]] to allow all but 1,000 of the most notorious émigrés of the [[French Revolution]] to return to [[France]]. *[[1803]] &ndash; [[Meteor]] fragments, in their [[thousand]]s, fall from the skies above L'Aigle, [[France]]. *[[1865]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General [[Joseph Johnston]] surrenders his army to General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] near [[Durham, North Carolina]]. *[[1865]] &ndash; Union cavalry troopers corner [[John Wilkes Booth]], [[Abraham Lincoln|President Lincoln]]'s assassin, in a [[Barn (building)|barn]] in [[Virginia]]. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman [[Boston Corbett]]. *[[1876]] &ndash; In [[football]], [[FC Copenhagen]] is founded. It is the oldest Football Club in [[Denmark]] and Northern [[Europe]]. *[[1903]] &ndash; In [[Soccer|football]], Spanish club [[Atletico Madrid]] is founded. *[[1923]] &ndash; Future King [[George VI of the United Kingdom]] marries [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] at [[Westminster Abbey]]. *[[1925]] &ndash; [[Paul von Hindenburg]] defeats [[Wilhelm Marx]] in the second round of the [[German presidential election, 1925|German presidential election]] to become the first directly elected [[Reichspräsident]], the [[head of state]] of the [[Weimar Republic]]. *[[1933]] &ndash; The [[Gestapo]], the official [[secret polic