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What Happened in April 1802

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Apr 8 French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
Apr 10 Great Trigonometrical Survey begun to survey entire Indian subcontinent, led by William Lambton and the East India Company (completed 1871)

Wordworth's Daffodils

Apr 15 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

Poet William Wordsworth

Famous Birthdays

Apr 1 Hubert Reis, German composer and violinist, born in Bonn, Electorate of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1886)

Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)

Apr 4 American pioneering nurse and social activist who created the first American mental asylums, born in Hampden, Maine

Dorothea Dix

Apr 12 Francis Libermann, French religious leader (Congregation of Heart), born in Saverne, France (d. 1852)
Apr 13 Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist, born in Vienna (d. 1884)
Apr 27 Louis Niedermeyer, composer, born in Nyon, Switzerland (d. 1861)

Famous Deaths

Apr 18 Erasmus Darwin, English physician writer and botanist (grandfather of Charles Darwin), dies at 70

What Happened in 1802

Enter Victor Hugo, Author of Les Mis
February 26, 1802

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