April 1812 in History

Events in History

Apr 3 Louisa Maria, Queen of Belgium (1832-50), Wife of Leopold I), born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (d. 1850)
Apr 6 Aaron Bernstein, writer
Apr 6 Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
Apr 9 Randolph Barnes Marcy, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Greenwich, Massachusetts (d. 1887)
Apr 15 Théodore Rousseau, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1867)
Apr 22 Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1894)
Apr 26 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant, born in Essen, Germany (d. 1887)
Apr 27 William W. Snow, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1851-53), born in Heath, Massachusetts (d. 1886)
Apr 28 Daniel Henry Rucker, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Belleville, New Jersey (d. 1910)
Apr 30 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe (who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell) (d. 1833)

Apr 20 George Clinton, American soldier and 4th Vice President (1805-12), dies at 73 and 1st Vice President to die in office