4th » President of the United States or U.S. President James Madison enacts a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
6th » British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Siege of Badajoz (1812) known as Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
30th » The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1812
6th » Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher and author (d. 1870)
22nd » Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-English orientalist (d. 1894)
27th » William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
27th » Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
30th » Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (d. 1833)