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The following events took place on April 13. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 41 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1111

  Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1204

  Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
• 1598

  Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
• 1612

  Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island.
• 1613

  Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage.
• 1699

  Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Sikh Guru, Created Khalsa on this day at Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
• 1742

  George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
• 1829

  The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
• 1849

  Hungary becomes a republic.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
• 1865

  American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
• 1870

  The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
• 1873

  The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
• 1902

  James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
• 1909

  The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• 1919

  The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
• 1919

  Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
• 1919

  Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
• 1941

  A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
• 1943

  World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
• 1943

  The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson’s birth.
• 1944

  Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1945

  World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
• 1945

  World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
• 1948

  The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
• 1953

  CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
• 1958

  Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
• 1960

  The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
• 1964

  At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

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