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 ...