Browsing: April

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 26th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 26, 1336, famed Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarca (better known as Petrarch) ascended Mont Ventoux, a mountain in the Provence region of southern France. On April 26, 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte signed a general amnesty for those members of the émigrés of the French Revolution, those royalists and others opposed to the French Revolution that had fled France. On April…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 25th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 25, 404 B.C., during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.), Lysander’s Spartan armies defeated the Athenians and the war finally ended. On April 25, 799, Pope Leo III was leading a procession honoring St. Mark in Rome, chanting prayers and responses with the crowd, a practice called the Greater Litanies. On April 25, 1644, the last of the Ming Dynasty Emperors,…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 24th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 24, 1184 B.C., at least according to traditionalists, the city of Troy fell to Greek invaders, thus bringing about the end of the epic Trojan War that began some ten years earlier in 1194 B.C. On April 24, 1885, Phoebe Ann Moses, better known as Annie Oakley, joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and was a star attraction for the…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 23rd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 23, 1016, Edmund Ironside was crowned King of England, replacing his father Aethelred the Unready. On April 23, 1348, King Edward III of England proclaimed The Order of the Garter on the feast day of St. George, the Patron Saint of England. On April 23, 1516, the region of Bavaria, a region world famous for their wonderful beer, signed on…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 22nd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 22, 1915, the Imperial German Army used chlorine gas in large quantities for the first time at Ypres, in Belgium, targeting French colonial troops. On April 22, 1944, the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II (CBI) was the scene of the first ever use of a helicopter in a combat zone. On April 22, 1944, an Allied “sledge patrol” attacked…