On This Day: April 26th

Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.

Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.

Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rides 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British regular forces.

A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.

The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.

Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).

The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.

The kingdom of France and the kingdom of Scotland agree on a treaty of mutual aid at Corbeil.

Following weeks of bombardment, the city of Tripoli falls to the Mamluks under Qalawun. The Mamluks massacre all men they find and enslave the women and children.