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The following events took place on April 23. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 40 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 215 BC

  A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
• 599

  Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
• 711

  Dagobert III is crowned King of the Franks.
• 1014

  Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
• 1016

  Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England.
• 1343

  St. George’s Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
• 1348

  The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George’s Day.
• 1516

  The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) is signed in Ingolstadt.
• 1521

  Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
• 1635

  The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
• 1655

  The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
• 1660

  Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
• 1661

  King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• 1815

  The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
• 1910

  American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his “The Man in the Arena” speech.
• 1914

  First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
• 1918

  World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
• 1920

  The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara, Turkey. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
• 1927

  Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
• 1932

  The 153-year-old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
• 1935

  The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
• 1940

  The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
• 1941

  World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
• 1942

  World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
• 1945

  World War II: Adolf Hitler’s designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
• 1946

  Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
• 1949

  Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
• 1951

  American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
• 1955

  The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
• 1961

  Algiers putsch by French generals.

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