April

April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). There are 270 days remaining. April 5 - Events. 33 - (traditional date) Resurrection of Jesus, according to the Christian gospels. (date est. by Sir Isaac Newton) 1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. < ...

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April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). There are 269 days remaining. April 6 - Events. 648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks. 402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. 1327 - The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of Saint Claire ...

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April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). There are 268 days remaining. April 7 - Events. 529 - first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I 1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague. 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu 1541 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies. 1655 - Fab ...

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April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). There are 255 days remaining. April 20 - Events. 1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament. 1657 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion. 1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry. 1770 - Lieutenant James Cook's expedition (first voyage) makes first sighting of eastern Australian ...

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April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). There are 254 days remaining. April 21 - Events. 753 BC - Romulus founds Rome (traditional). 1792 - Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged. 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. 1863 - B ...

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2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → April 2005 - Deaths in April. • 26: Augusto Roa Bastos • 24: Ezer Weizman • 23: Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen • 23: John Mills • 16: Marla Ruzicka • 9: Andrea Dworkin • 6: Prince Rainier III • 5: Dale Messick • 5: Saul Bellow • 2: Pope John Paul II • 1: Harald Juhnke

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April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). There are 253 days remaining. April 22 - Events. 1500 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. 1509 - Henry VIII ascends the throne of England after the death of his father. 1529 - Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas. < ...

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13 April is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining. It is also the Ides of April. April 13 - Events. 1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople 1598 - Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the HuguenotsIncluding:

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April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). There are 252 days remaining. April 23 - Events. 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. 1014 - Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle. 1348 - The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on St George's ...

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April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). There are 251 days remaining. April 24 - Events. 1184 BC - Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional). 1704 - The first regular newspaper in the United States, the Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published. 1800 - The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase " ...

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April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). There are 250 days remaining. April 25 - Events. 1607 - Eighty Years' War: Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. 1707 - An Allied Austrian army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession. 1719 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published. 1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes t ...

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April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining. April 26 - Events. 1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh S ...

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April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). There are 264 days remaining. April 11 - Events. 1241 - Batu Khan defeats Bela IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi 1512 - Battle of Ravenna 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany 1803 - French Foreign Minister Charles Talleyrand offers to sell all of the Louisiana Ter ...

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April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). There are 261 days remaining. April 14 - Events. 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed. AD 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne. 1028 - Henry III, son of Conra ...

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April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining. April 15 - Events. 1450 - Battle of Formigny; Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in northern France. 1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. 1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, a ...

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April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). There are 259 days remaining. April 16 - Events. 1178 BC - A solar eclipse may mark the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War. 1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy. 1521 - Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the rest of the ...

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April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). There are 258 days remaining. April 17 - Events. 1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. 1492 - Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices. 1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings. 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano ...

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April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining. April 18 - Events. 1025 - Bolesław I Chrobry is crowned as the first king of Poland. 1042 - Michael V attempts to remain sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire by sending his adoptive mother and co-ruler Zoë of Byzantium to a monastery. 1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland. 1775 - Two lanterns were hung from the steeple of the ...

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April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). There are 256 days remaining. April 19 - Events. 1012 - Martyrdom of St Alphege in Greenwich, London. 1529 - At the Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant movement. 1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the French fleet in Cádiz H ...

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April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. April 1 - Events. 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. 1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English 1572 - The Watergeuzen succeeded in capturing Den Briel, effectively sealing off the Meuse from the Spaniards. 1789 - In New York City, the United States House of R ...

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April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). There are 265 days remaining. April 10 - Events. 1741 - Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz 1815 - Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia. 1816 - The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States. 1865 - American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General R ...

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