April 3:
A.D. 1043: Edward the Confessor is crowned king of England.
A.D. 1657: Lord Protector Cromwell refuses an offer of the English crown.
A.D. 1882: The American outlaw, Jesse James, is killed.
A.D. 1973: The first cell-phone call is made.
April 4:
A.D. 1541: Ignatius of Loyola becomes the first superior-general of the Jesuits.
A.D. 1581: Francis Drake is knighted aboard the Golden Hind by Queen Elizabeth II.
A.D. 1918: The Battle of the Somme ends.
April 5:
A.D. 456: Traditional date for St. Patrick's return to Ireland as a missionary bishop.
A.D. 1722: Easter Island is discovered.
A.D. 1806: Isaac Quintard patents apple cider.
Thank goodness for that guy!
A.D. 1939: Membership in the Hitler youth becomes obligatory for German youth.
April 6:
A.D. 1652: Cape Colony is established by the Dutch East India Company.\
A.D. 1722: Peter the Great ends a tax on men with beards.
A.D. 1869: The first plastic, celluloid, is patented.
April 7:
c. A.D. 30: Estimate of the date for Jesus of Nazereth's crucifixion outside of Jerusalem.
A.D. 1827: Wooden matches are invented by English chemist John Walker.
A.D. 1933: Jews are banned from legal and public service in Nazi Germany.
A.D. 1933: Prohibition ends in the United States.
April 8:
A.D. 1139: Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
A.D. 1783: Russia, under Catherine II, annexes the Crimea.
A.D. 1802: The French Protestant Church becomes state supported and controlled.
A.D. 1946: The League of Nations assembles for the last time.
April 9:
A.D. 1483: Edward V succeeds Edward IV as King of England, but is never crowned, and disappears after being imprisoned in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard. Both boys were presumably murdered.
A.D. 1667: The first public art exhibition is held in Paris.
A.D. 1869: The Hudson's Bay Company relinquishes its' territory to Canada.
A.D. 1912: The R.M.S. Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for New York.
Cool.
April 10:
A.D. 1516: The first ghetto is formed, restricting Jews to a certain area of Venice.
A.D. 1710: The first copyright law is issued in Great Britain.
A.D. 1790: The U.S. Patent System is formed.
A.D. 1912: The R.M.S. Titanic sets sail from Southampton.
April 11:
A.D. 1814: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and is exiled to Elba.
A.D. 1868: The shogunate is abolished in Japan.
A.D. 1906: Albert Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity.
April 12:
A.D. 1204: Constantinople is occupied and plundered by crusaders.
A.D. 1931: Spanish voters reject the monarchy.
A.D. 1980: Terry Fox begins his marathon.
April 13:
A.D. 1250: Crusaders on the Seventh Crusade are defeated in Egypt and King St. Louis IX is captured.
A.D. 1598: French Huguenots are granted political rights under the Edict of Nantes.
A.D. 1640: The Short Parliament forms in England.
A.D. 1959: A Catholic edict forbids Catholics from voting for Communists.
I have noticed a great deal of Roman and/or Catholic bias in this thread!
;)
No, I'm entirely unbiased! You're just used to American and Mormon bias, which is skewing your perspective. ;)
April 14:
A.D. 1849: Hungary declares itself independent from Austria.
A.D. 1863: The continuous roll printing press is patented.
A.D. 1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
A.D. 1894: The first public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetescope.
April 15:
A.D. 1450: The French defeat the English in the Battle of Formigny during the Hundred Years' War.
A.D. 1493: Christopher Columbo meets with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain after his return from the Americas.
A.D. 1896: The first modern Olympic Games close in Athens, Greece.
A.D. 1912: The R.M.S. Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland at 2:27 in the morning.
April 16:
A.D. 73: The Jewish fortress of Masada falls to the Romans, ending the Jewish Revolt.
A.D. 1871: The German Empire ends all anti-Semitic civil restrictions.
Only to have them replaced less than three quarters of a century later....
A.D. 1922: Annie Oakley sets the woman's shooting record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row.
A.D. 1922: A German-Russian treaty is signed and the Soviet Union recognized.
A.D. 1945: The Red Army begins the Battle of Berlin.
April 17:
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbo signs a contract with Spain to find the Indies by sailing west.
A.D. 1534: St. Sir Thomas More is imprisoned in the Tower of London.
A.D. 1793: The Battle of Warsaw.
A.D. 1939: Joseph Stalin signs an anti-Nazi pact with the British and French.
April 18:
A.D. 310: St. Eusebius begins his reign as Bishop of Rome.
A.D. 1506: The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
A.D. 1521: Martin Luther is questioned by Cardinal Alexander in the Diet of Worms.
A.D. 1775: Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington, warning the advance of the British, which is the beginning of the American Revolution.
A.D. 1783: Fighting ceases in the American Revolution after exactly eight years.
April 19:
A.D. 1587: Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet.
A.D. 1770: The first sighting of Australia by Captain James Cook.
A.D. 1934: Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.
A.D. 2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected Pope, taking the name Benedict XVI.
April 20:
A.D. 1139: The Second Lateran Council (the 10th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church) opens in Rome.
A.D. 1841: The first detective story, Edward Allen Poe's Murders in Rue Morgue is published.
A.D. 1862: Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization test.
April 21:
753 B.C.: The traditional date for Romulus and Remus' founding of Rome.
A.D. 1509: Henry VIII ascends the English throne.
A.D. 1689: William III and Mary Stuart become king and queen of England.
April 22:
A.D. 1659: Lord Protector William Cromwell disbands the English Parliament.
A.D. 1823: Roller blades are patented by R. J. Tylers.
A.D. 1876: Tchaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet.
A.D. 1914: Babe Ruth plays baseball as a professional for the first time.
April 23:
A.D. 1014: King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats invading Danes at the Battle of Clontarf.
A.D. 1154: Damascus surrenders to Sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo.
A.D. 1635: The first public institution in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded.
A.D. 1941: The Greek army surrenders to German Nazis. King George II escapes to Egypt.
April 24:
1479 B.C.: Thutmose III ascends the Egyptian throne, but the pharaohic power shifts to Hatsheptsut.
1184 B.C.: The traditional date for the Greeks' entry into Troy using the Trojan Horse.
A.D. 1066: After seeing Halley's Comet, an English monk takes it as an omen that England will be destroyed (it was conquered that same year).
A.D. 1915: The German army begins using chloroform gas in the Battle of Ypres.
April 25:
A.D. 1507: "America" is first used to describe the New World.
A.D. 1719: Robinson Crusoe is published by Daniel Defoe.
A.D. 1792: The guillotine is first used in France.
A.D. 1846: Dispute over the borders of Texas begins the Mexican-American War.
April 26:
A.D. 1721: The first smallpox vaccination.
A.D. 1828: Russia declares war on Turkey in support of Greece's independence.
A.D. 1986: The fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, killing 31 in the explosion, and resulting in the deaths of thousands more due to radiation.
April 27:
A.D. 1296: The Scots are defeated by Edward I in the Battle of Dunbar.
A.D. 1810: Ludwig van Beethoven composes Für Elise.
He did that in one day?
A.D. 1940: The creation of the notorious Auschwitz Concentration Camp is ordered.
A.D. 1950: The Group Areas Act is passed in South Africa, beginning apartheid.
April 28:
A.D. 585: A war between Media and Lydia is ended by a solar eclipse.
A.D. 1686: The first volume of Isaac Newton's Principia is published.
A.D. 1770: Captain James Cook lands in Botany Bay.
A.D. 1789: Fletcher Christian and other crewmembers of the H.M.S. Bounty mutiny against Captain Bligh, who is abandoned in a boat with the remaining loyal crewmembers.
A three volume book was written about the mutiny and the survival of Captain Bligh et al. I read the second volume, but haven't gotten around to the first and third yet (they're readable as individual stories).
April 29:
A.D. 1429: St. Joan of Arc arrives at the siege of Orleans.
A.D. 1661: The Chinese Ming Dynasty occupies Taiwan.
A.D. 1707: Scottish and English Parliaments accept the Act of Union, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
A.D. 1813: Rubber is patented by Jacob Hummel.