A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 28th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 28, 1192, the Hashshashin (Assassins) assassinated Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, just two days after his title to the throne was confirmed by election. On April 28, 1192, the Christian King of Jerusalem, Conrad of Montferrat, perhaps better known as Conrad I, was murdered by an Islamic organization called the Order of Assassins, or the…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 27, 33 BC, Roman politician Lucius Marcius Philippus, a step-brother to the future emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC–AD 14), celebrated a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania. On April 27, 1805, the United States Marine Corps conducted one of their first famous missions, one immortalized in the Marines’ Hymn, by taking…

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…