What Happened In April 1850 In History

Historical Events for April, 1850

• 4th » The Great Fire of Cottenham: a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
• 4th » Los Angeles, California, is incorporated as a city.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1850

• 13th » Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
• 20th » Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Abraham Lincoln (French 1920) or Lincoln statue (d. 1931)
• 25th » Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
• 27th » Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
• 30th » George Gibb, Scottish businessman (d. 1925)

Famous Deaths for April 1850

• 7th » William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)
• 12th » Adoniram Judson, American missionary (b. 1788)
• 16th » Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds named Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (b. 1761)
• 22nd » Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (b. 1798)
• 23rd » William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)

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