Editing April 26 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1607]] &ndash; The [[Virginia Company]] colonists make landfall at [[Cape Henry]].
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[1721 Tabriz earthquake|A massive earthquake]] devastates the Iranian city of [[Tabriz]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the Earth and Space Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uMwWAQAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University|page=91}}</ref>
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[Sybil Ludington]], aged 16, allegedly rode {{convert|40|mi|km|abbr=out|sigfig=|sp=us}} to alert American colonial forces to the approach of [[British Armed Forces|British regular forces]]
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Battle of Beaumont (1794)|Battle of Beaumont]] during the [[Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition|Flanders Campaign]] of the [[War of the First Coalition]].
*[[1802]] &ndash; [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]] signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious [[French emigration (1789–1815)|émigrés of the French Revolution]] to return to France.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/diplomatic/c_emigres.html |title=Decree on Émigrés |website=The Napoleon Series |publisher=The Waterloo Association |access-date=25 April 2020}}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; Thousands of [[L'Aigle (meteorite)|meteor fragments fall]] from the skies of [[L'Aigle]], France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[First Barbary War]]: [[United States Marines]] [[Battle of Derne|captured]] [[Derna, Libya|Derne]] under the command of [[First Lieutenant]] [[Presley O'Bannon]].
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead [[John Wilkes Booth]], [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|assassin of President Abraham Lincoln]], in [[Virginia]].
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[1900 Hull–Ottawa fire|Fires]] destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.<ref>{{cite book|last=Burbank|first=Richard|title=Twentieth Century Music|location=New York City, USA|publisher=Facts on File Publication, New York City, NY|year=1984|isbn=0-87196-464-3|page=13}}|</ref>