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Don Quixote 
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 Topic: Historical Events on this Day in HistoryPosted: 01-Apr-2012 at 00:28 |
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March 31st:
307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian. 1084 - Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV 1146 - Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade. 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews 1504 - France & Spain signs ceasefire 1521 - Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus 1547 - Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France 1644 - Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara 1657 - English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown 1667 - France/England signs anti-Dutch military accord 1683 - Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey 1745 - Jews are expelled from Prague 1808 - French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names 1814 - Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris 1822 - The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. 1831 - Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends 1831 - Quebec & Montreal incorporated 1866 - The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile. 1868 - Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China 1877 - British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown 1885 - Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate 1900 - Brig-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands 1903 - Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (NZ) 1905 - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger 1907 - Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt 1916 - Dutch government ends all milt engagements 1920 - British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law 1924 - London public transport strike ends 1926 - German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands 1932 - 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall 1933 - German Republic gives power to Hitler 1939 - Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany 1940 - Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956) 1944 - Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars 1945 - 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine 1945 - Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen 1946 - Belgian government of Acker, forms 1946 - The first election is held in Greece after World War II. 1954 - USSR offers to join NATO 1958 - USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same 1964 - Pres Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military 1971 - South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion 1986 - English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead 1986 - Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England. 1991 - Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years 1991 - Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union 1991 - Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves 1991 - The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait. 1992 - UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya |
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Don Quixote
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Posted: 01-Apr-2012 at 20:14 |
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April 1st:
527 - Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. 705 - Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI 1064 - Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik 1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English. 1340 - Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark. 1504 - English guilds/corp goes under state control 1572 - Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle 1572 - In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. 1581 - Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II 1724 - Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War 1865 - -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama 1865 - Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army 1867 - Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies 1881 - Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem 1881 - Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens 1905 - British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya 1933 - Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses 1936 - Orissa constituted a province of British India 1937 - Aden becomes British crown colony 1941 - Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafés 1941 - Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq 1941 - The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted. 1942 - Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor 1944 - German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed 1944 - Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India 1945 - Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen 1945 - Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army 1946 - Formation of the Malayan Union. 1947 - 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat 1948 - Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark. 1953 - J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea 1957 - Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising 1960 - 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara) 1960 - France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria 1974 - Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran 1974 - In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being. 1975 - Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer 1977 - Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails 1979 - Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah 1980 - France performs nuclear test 1982 - Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution 1991 - Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years 1991 - Warsaw Pact officially dissolves 1992 - World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR 1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. 2002 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so. 2006 - The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom. 2009 - Croatia and Albania joined NATO 2011 - After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers. Edited by Don Quixote - 01-Apr-2012 at 23:55 |
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April 3rd:
999 - Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope 1416 - Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon 1453 - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29. 1513 - Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon 1550 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 1559 - England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1559 - Genoa Italy, expels Jews 1590 - States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht 1595 - Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope 1645 - Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander 1745 - Austria & Bavaria sign peace 1755 - Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India. 1801 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen - The British destroy the Danish fleet. 1860 - 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin 1883 - Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack 1884 - London prison for debtors closed 1902 - Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg. 1905 - Cairo-Capetown railway opens 1912 - Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power 1916 - German troops overtake Bois de Caillette 1926 - Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta 1944 - Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania 1960 - Cuba buys oil from USSR 1964 - Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, Pres Goulart ousted 1968 - Chad creates Union of Central African States 1970 - Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state 1970 - Qatar gains independence from Britain 1975 - Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. 1976 - Portuguese constitution assumed 1979 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets pres Sadat 1982 - Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvina) Islands from Great Britain 2002 - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues. 2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted. |
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April 3rd:
419 - [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1043 - Edward the Confessor crowned king of England 1077 - The first Parliament of Friuli is created. 1312 - 2nd council of Vienna 1376 - Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France 1559 - Spain & France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1645 - English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance 1657 - English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown 1764 - Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king 1834 - The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason. 1882 - Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks 1917 - Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16] 1917 - Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd 1919 - Austria expels all Habsburgers 1922 - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1925 - Neth & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde 1926 - Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions 1929 - Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact 1930 - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1941 - Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion 1941 - Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq 1944 - British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz 1945 - Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army 1945 - Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald 1946 - Neth-German postal relations resume 1956 - Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated 1956 - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana 1964 - US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations 1976 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1977 - Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time 1978 - European market & China signs trade agreement 1980 - France performs nuclear test 1981 - Race riots in London's Brixton area 1982 - UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands 1984 - Guinea suspends constitution after coup 1985 - French government adopts equal electoral system 1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1988 - Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1997 - Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas. 2004 - Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. 2009 - Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Edited by Don Quixote - 03-Apr-2012 at 22:50 |
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Don Quixote
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April 4th:
1081 - Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne 1552 - Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov 1558 - Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders 1581 - Francis Drake becomes knight 1588 - Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark 1625 - Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels 1655 - Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates 1660 - English king Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion) 1686 - English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence 1687 - King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church 1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar 1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time. 1866 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. 1900 - Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII 1900 - British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet 1912 - Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia 1912 - Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet 1913 - The Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes. 1918 - Battle of Somme, ends 1918 - Food riot in Amsterdam 1920 - Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem 1926 - Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president 1930 - The Communist Party of Panama is founded. 1939 - Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq 1941 - German troops conquer Banghazi 1944 - British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia 1944 - De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists 1945 - Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) 1947 - UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms 1949 - Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement 1955 - British government signs military treaty with Iraq 1959 - Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960) 1960 - Senegal declares independence from France 1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed. 1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 2002 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War. 2007 - 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President. Edited by Don Quixote - 04-Apr-2012 at 22:15 |
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Don Quixote
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April 5th:
823 - Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France 1058 - Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X 1242 - Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights 1242 - Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia 1566 - 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition 1585 - Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch 1603 - New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London 1609 - Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa. 1614 - 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments) 1739 - French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty 1751 - Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden 1762 - British take Grenada, West Indies, from French 1812 - Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish 1818 - In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead. 1879 - Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. 1881 - Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty 1897 - The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. 1900 - Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails 1915 - French begin Woëvre-offensive 1916 - French troops occupy Bois de Caillette 1919 - Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann 1919 - Polish Army executes 35 young Jews 1929 - Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact 1932 - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government. 1935 - Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election 1938 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland 1939 - Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory 1943 - Allies bomb Mortsel 1944 - World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. 1945 - Almelo Netherlands freed 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him 1956 - In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister. 1958 - Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. 1979 - Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia 1982 - British fleet sails to Falkland Islands 1983 - France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats 1989 - Solidarity grants legal status in Poland 1992 - Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress 1992 - Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president |
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Don Quixote
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April 6th:
46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus. 402 - Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten 774 - Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy 1106 - Fire in Venice 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. 1362 - Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France 1385 - John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal. 1634 - Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curacao" 1652 - Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established 1652 - John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown 1663 - King Charles II signs Carolina Charter 1664 - France & Saksen sign alliance 1667 - An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state. 1672 - France declares war on Netherlands 1722 - Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards 1724 - Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs 1727 - Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover 1757 - English king George II fires minister William Pitt Sr 1886 - Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga 1890 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan 1903 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world. 1916 - German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare 1919 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike. 1920 - French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau 1923 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia. 1924 - Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament 1924 - Völkische Block (nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern 1934 - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany 1941 - German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) 1941 - Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces 1944 - Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis 1945 - Coevorden freed from nazis 1955 - Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam 1964 - Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations 1967 - Premier Pompidou forms new French government 1968 - 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution 1972 - Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan 1981 - Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo 1992 - Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo 1992 - A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal. 1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. 1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India. 2005 - Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day. Edited by Don Quixote - 07-Apr-2012 at 01:18 |
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April 7th:
30 - Scholars' estimate Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem 451 - Attila's Hun's plunder Metz 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. 1118 - Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor 1498 - Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy 1509 - France declares war on Venice 1584 - Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma 1625 - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander 1652 - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa 1831 - Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician. 1906 - Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business 1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. 1933 - 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service 1934 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience 1939 - Italy invades Albania 1941 - British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa 1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta 1943 - Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg 1943 - British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia 1943 - Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid 1946 - Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR 1946 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised. 1953 - Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary 1954 - German government refuses to recognize DDR 1954 - Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China 1956 - Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco 1962 - Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail 1963 - Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic 1967 - Israeli/Syrian border fights 1976 - Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping 1980 - Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis 1982 - Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested 1988 - Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan 1989 - Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths 1992 - Republika Srpska announces its independence. 1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later. 2005 - The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress. 2009 - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. Edited by Don Quixote - 09-Apr-2012 at 00:36 |
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April 8th:
217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. 1139 - Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated. 1149 - Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum. 1195 - Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor 1271 - In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers. 1500 - Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza 1716 - Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter the Great's niece 1759 - British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India 1767 - Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders. 1783 - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim 1848 - 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians 1848 - Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro 1866 - Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary. 1879 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers 1886 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. 1898 - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese 1904 - Great Brit & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter 1913 - Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing) 1929 - Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. 1933 - Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror 1939 - King Zog I of Albania, flees 1945 - Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands 1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time 1952 - Pres Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike 1953 - Dag Hammarskjoeld chosen as secretary-general of UN 1956 - M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon 1968 - Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms 1968 - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect 1977 - Israel premier Rabin resigns 2004 - Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups. 2004 - U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission. |
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April 9th:
193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans). 475 - Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position. 715 - Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans 1388 - Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army 1413 - Henry V is crowned King of England. 1440 - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark. 1454 - Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi 1474 - Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians 1483 - Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England 1538 - Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union 1609 - Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact 1621 - Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends 1691 - French troops occupy Mons 1783 - Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India 1808 - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace 1917 - Battle of Arras begins 1917 - Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops 1918 - Latvia proclaims independence 1928 - Turkey passes separation of church & state 1940 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders) 1942 - Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japs at Bataan 1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin. 1949 - UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages 1952 - Popular uprising in Bolivia 1952 - Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines 1953 - Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya 1965 - India & Pakistan engage in border fight 1968 - German DR adopts constitution 1973 - Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam 1977 - Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years 1988 - US imposes economic sanctions on Panama 1991 - Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR |
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879 - Louis III, crowned King of France 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1516 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice 1552 - Henri II of France occupies Metz 1589 - Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg 1656 - Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon 1694 - Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale 1741 - Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz 1741 - War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz. 1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus. 1825 - Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon 1826 - The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive. 1868 - Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala 1869 - José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party. 1919 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. 1932 - Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd) 1941 - German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica 1943 - 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis 1943 - General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia 1944 - Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis 1945 - Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech) 1945 - Canadian troops conquer Deventer 1945 - General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" 1945 - German troops attack Ijsselbrug 1946 - 1st election for Japanese Diet 1947 - King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned 1948 - Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek 1957 - Suez canal reopens for all traffic 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1958 - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco 1972 - US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons 1972 - 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas. 1973 - Pakistan suspends constitution 1974 - Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir 1983 - Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO 1986 - Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan |
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Don Quixote
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April 11th:
491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. 1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. 1471 - King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI 1512 - Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army 1564 - England & France sign Peace of Troyes 1677 - Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III 1689 - William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain 1713 - Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty 1814 - 1st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba 1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca. 1848 - Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Austria 1856 - Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan. 1876 - Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan 1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. 1902 - Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa 1912 - Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid 1919 - The International Labour Organization is founded. 1921 - Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR 1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created. 1924 - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections 1925 - Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco 1926 - Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent 1927 - Chilean general Carlos Ibáñez names himself president 1933 - Hermann Goering becomes premier of Prussia 1939 - Hungary leaves League of Nations 1941 - Germany blitzes Conventry, England 1941 - Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis 1941 - Nazi occupiers in Neth confiscate Jewish assets 1945 - Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum 1945 - SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen 1950 - Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco rd US President Harry Truman 1951 - Pres Harry Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur 1956 - French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria 1961 - Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel 1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala 1981 - Race riot in London area of Brixton 1984 - Chinese troops invade Vietnam 1984 - USSR party leader Chernenko elected president 2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez takes place. 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium. 2007 - 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others. 2011 - Minsk Metro bombing |
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Don Quixote
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April 12th:
467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. 1065 - Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem 1111 - Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor 1204 - 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople 1229 - Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace 1545 - French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed 1557 - Cuenca is founded in Ecuador. 1606 - England adopts Union Jack as its flag 1654 - Ordinance of Union between England and Scotland passed by the Council of State 1713 - Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Neth loses Orange Princedom 1782 - Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French 1820 - Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. 1877 - British annex Transvaal, in South Africa 1883 - French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal 1894 - British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa 1911 - 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m) 1919 - British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages 1935 - Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers 1935 - Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar 1940 - Italy annexes Albania 1942 - Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan 1943 - Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa 1952 - Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government 1973 - France recognizes North Vietnam 1973 - Sudan adopts constitution 1973 - Swaziland suspends constitution 1990 - 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss 2012 - Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president Edited by Don Quixote - 14-Apr-2012 at 01:10 |
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April 13th:
837 - Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years 989 - Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas 1055 - Bishop Gebhard van Eichstattt named Pope Victor II 1111 - Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II 1180 - Republic day of Gelnhausen 1204 - Crusaders occupy Constantinople 1241 - Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV 1250 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured. 1256 - The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. 1346 - Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy 1367 - Battle at Nájera Spain: Castile & England beat Aragon & France 1517 - Osmaanse army occupies Cairo 1556 - Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope 1598 - Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots 1640 - English Short Parliament forms (- May 5) 1796 - Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians 1849 - Hungarian Republic proclaimed 1868 - Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala. 1882 - Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia 1904 - Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army 1919 - British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) 1919 - The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. 1921 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party. 1924 - Greek plebiscite for a republic 1939 - In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British. 1941 - Heavy German assault on Tobruk 1941 - Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect 1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. 1943 - Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn 1944 - The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established. 1945 - Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Neth from Nazis 1945 - Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) 1959 - Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists 1961 - UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid 1964 - Ian D Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia 1964 - New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day 2012 - North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch |
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April 14th:
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. 193 - Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome 754 - Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte 979 - Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England 1028 - German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king 1341 - Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo. 1536 - English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries 1544 - Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss 1574 - Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau 1629 - England & France sign Peace of Susa 1671 - Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin 1792 - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars 1809 - Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria 1814 - Napoleon abdicated & was banished to Elba 1849 - Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader. 1909 - Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London 1915 - The Turks invade Armenia. 1922 - Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin 1931 - Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII 1941 - King Peter leaves Yugoslavia 1943 - Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis 1944 - Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government 1953 - Viet-Minh offensive in Laos 1954 - Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra 1961 - Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua 1961 - US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered 1967 - Gen Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo 1985 - Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru 1987 - Turkey asks to join European market 1992 - UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect Edited by Don Quixote - 14-Apr-2012 at 18:15 |
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April 15th:
69 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy 1205 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople 1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue 1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War 1493 - -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella 1581 - Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal 1621 - Hugo the Great arrives in France 1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. 1654 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty 1689 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain 1697 - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden 1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar 1788 - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty 1858 - Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists 1865 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen 1924 - Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead 1939 - Albert Lebrun elected president of France 1940 - British troops land at Narvik, Norway 1945 - British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen 1948 - 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated 1948 - Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created 1953 - Malans National Party wins South African elections 1964 - Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia 1975 - Gabon amends constitution 1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 2010 - Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe. |
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Also, on April 16th:
73 - Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt. 1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy. 1346 - King Stefanus IX of Serbia proclaims himself czar of Greece 1346 - The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the Balkans. 1395 - Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops. 1509 - French army under Louis XII enters Alps 1746 - Battle at Culloden: Troops of George II of Great Britain defeat Charles Stuart 1777 - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits 1799 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. 1866 - Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia 1871 - German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions 1883 - Paul Kruger chosen president of Transvaal 1917 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution 1921 - Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague 1922 - German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized 1925 - During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded. 1939 - Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact 1942 - Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship 1942 - King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta 1945 - German troops in Groningen surrender 1945 - Red Army begins Battle of Berlin 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1958 - French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis 1959 - Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1975 - Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh 1982 - Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution 1992 - Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns 2003 - The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union. Edited by Don Quixote - 16-Apr-2012 at 21:16 |
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April 17th:
1534 - Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower 1555 - Siena surrenders for Spanish troops 1711 - Charles VI Habsburg becomes king of Austria 1747 - French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands 1793 - Battle of Warsaw 1797 - Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions to Spanish territories in America. 1808 - Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships 1824 - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40'N 1839 - Guatemala forms republic 1853 - Thorbecke government resigns 1895 - Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) 1900 - 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession 1927 - Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier 1930 - Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR 1932 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery 1939 - Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact 1941 - British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis 1941 - World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. 1942 - Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp 1945 - German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Neth 1945 - Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan 1956 - Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns 1956 - USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves 1961 - 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro 1969 - Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed 1971 - Egypt, Libya & Syria form federation (FAR) 1971 - People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman 1974 - Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt 1975 - Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea Natl Day) 1982 - Canada adopts its constitution 1983 - In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters 1986 - Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651) 1989 - Polish labor union granted legal status |
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