27th » War of 1812: United States known as American troops capture the Capital (political) or capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
Famous Birthdays on April in 1813
18th » James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865)
23rd » Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (d. 1861)
23rd » Frédéric Ozanam, Italian-French historian and scholar (d. 1853)
Famous Deaths for April 1813
10th » Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
19th » Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)
27th » Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (b. 1779)
28th » Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)