13th April anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1570
  • Great Britain
  • Birth of Guy Fawkes whose attempt to blow up the British Houses of Parliament came close to success. more
  • 1769
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Thomas Lawrence, English artist" more
  • 1771
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Richard Trevithick, steam engine improver who built the first high pressure system and also the first steam locomotive to run on rails." more
  • 1852
  • United States
  • Birth of F W Woolworth more
  • 1866
  • United States
  • "Birth of Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy" more
  • 1909
  • Poland
  • "Birth of Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-born American mathematician, played a major role in the development of the hydrogen bomb" more
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer" more
• event
  • 1111
  • Germany
  • Henry V of Germany was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. more
  • 1204
  • Turkey
  • "Constantinople falls to the Fourth Crusade, an unfortunate turn of events as they were meant to be liberating Holy sites, not attacking Christian cities." more
  • 1598
  • France
  • "Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, which gave the Huguenots freedom of religion." more
  • 1742
  • Ireland
  • "First performance of Handel's Messiah, given in Dublin." more
  • 1829
  • Great Britain
  • British parliament gives freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
  • 1870
  • United States
  • "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is founded." more
  • 1919
  • India
  • "The Amritsar Massacre, Punjab, India British troops fired into a crowd of 10,000 protestors, killing 379 people and wounding 1,200" more
  • 1969
  • Australia
  • The Brisbane tramway network closed more
  • 1999
  • United States
  • American pathologist Dr Jack Kevorkian was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for the assisted suicide murder of a terminally ill man more
• Death
  • 1959
  • Netherlands
  • "Death of Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor" more
  • 1984
  • United States
  • "Death of Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musicologist and harpsichordist" more