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Born in 1765: (1765-96), mother of King of Bavaria

Portrait by (1757-1812), 1790


Stadtmuseum Zweibrücken

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14 April 1655 General Venables landed Protectorate troops west of Santo Domingo, as part of Cromwell's 'Western Design' to seize Spanish Hispaniola (Haiti). The poorly planned and conceived expedition was a disaster, denting the regime's confidence.

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On 14th April 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the following day.
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"An artist a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished." 🎨 American painter passed away 14 April 1925.

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Born in 1860: Belgian painter (1860-1949)

Portrait of a Woman with Blue Shawl, 1881

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Born in 1860: Belgian painter (1860-1949)

Portrait of Painter (1851-1916), 1880s

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Born in 1860: Belgian painter (1860-1949)

Portrait of Painter Alfred William Finch (#WillyFinch), (1854-1930), 1880s

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"You will be entertained with a prophecy which my Lord Chesterfield has found in the 35th chapter of Ezekiel, which clearly promises us victory over the French"
Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley, 1755

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"Dryden taught to join / The varying pause, the full resounding line, / The long majestic march, and energy divine." (#Pope)

📖 in the of 13 April 1668, King appointed 36-year-old as the first English Poet Laureate.

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"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks." 🎨 Danish-German painter and educator passed away 13 April 1956.

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'I hope you have good store of double violets—I think they are the Princesses of flowers and in a shower of rain, almost as fine as barley sugar drops are to a schoolboy’s tongue.'

John Keats to Fanny Keats, 12 April 1819. Hints of Nightingale's 'Fast fading violets'?

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in 1961 the first manned flight took off, with cosmonaut Yuru inside.

Soviet propaganda made use of this huge milestone at the height of the space race – take a look at some of the iconic here.

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Born in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a & one of the first women to become a member of the Royal Academy.

📷 Credit: , "Self-Portrait with Two Pupils" by 1785.

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1782 Admiral Sir George Bridges Rodney in HMS FORMIDABLE with Rear Admiral Hood in HMS BARFLEUR and 36 ships inflicted a decisive defeat on the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies. The French suffered over 8000 lost & wounded & 5 ships

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Born in 1767: French painter (1767-1855)

Portrait of a Woman, 1835

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Born in 1767: French painter (1767-1855)

Portrait of Mme de Kercado, ca. 1813

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