April 15 Historical Events

The following events took place on April 15. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 46 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 769
  The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.
• 1071
  Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
• 1395
  Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
• 1450
  Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years’ War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
• 1632
  Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War.
• 1642
  Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army.
• 1715
  The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
• 1738
  Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
• 1755
  Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
• 1783
  Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
• 1802
  William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
• 1817
  Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1861
  President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War
• 1865
  President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln’s death.
• 1892
  The General Electric Company is formed.

• 1896
  Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• 1900
  Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
• 1907
  Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• 1912
  The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
• 1920
  Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
• 1921
  Black Friday: Mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
• 1922
  U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
• 1923
  Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
• 1924
  Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• 1927
  The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
• 1935
  Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
• 1936
  First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
• 1936
  Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1940
  The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1941
  In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.