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

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