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April 7 Historical Events

The following events took place on April 7. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 63 events. Showing 1 - 30.

  • 397
    The wearing of barbarian clothing in the City of Rome is banned by the Emperor Honorius.
  • 451
    Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
  • 529
    First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
  • 611
    Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
  • 1141
    Empress Matilda became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
  • 1348
    Charles University is founded in Prague.
  • 1521
    Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
  • 1541
    Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
  • 1724
    Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
  • 1767
    End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
  • 1776
    Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
  • 1788
    American pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
  • 1789
    Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
  • 1798
    The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
  • 1805
    Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
  • 1805
    German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
  • 1827
    John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
  • 1829
    Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
  • 1831
    Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
  • 1862
    American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends: The Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
  • 1868
    Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by Irish Republicans, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
  • 1890
    Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
  • 1906
    Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • 1906
    The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
  • 1908
    H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
  • 1922
    Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
  • 1927
    First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • 1933
    Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
  • 1939
    World War II: Italy invades Albania.
  • 1940
    Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

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