Historical Events
Cape Colony Founded
Apr 6 Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 7 Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italian Pope (1730-40) who despite ill health and total blindness (1732) unsuccessfully stemmed decline of papal influence, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1740)
- Apr 21 Michel Rolle, French mathematician (Rolle's theorem), born in Ambert, Basse-Auvergne (d. 1719)
