Events in History
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Apr 3 Robert Walpole becomes Britain's 1st Lord of the Treasury - effective Prime Minister, although that term was never officially used (indeed, it was considered an insult) until much later
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Roger Sherman (1721-1793)
Apr 19 American lawyer and Founding Father of the United States (Declaration of Independence, Constitution), born in Newton, Massachusetts
Deaths in History
- Apr 14 Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
Mary Read (1685-1721)
Apr 28 English pirate who operated in the Caribbean, dies of a violent fever while in prison and likely still pregnant aged 36
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