Year 1309 Calendar » Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
Year 1329 Calendar » Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
Year 1513 Calendar » Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
Year 1625 Calendar » Charles I of England e.g Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title English claims to the French throne named King of France.
Year 1782 Calendar » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Year 1794 Calendar » Denmark and Sweden form a neutral country or neutrality compact.
Year 1794 » The Federal government of the United States United States Government establishes a permanent United States Navy navy and authorizes the building of Original six frigates of the United States Navy six frigates.
Year 1809 Calendar » Peninsular War: A combined French First Empire called Franco-Duchy of Warsaw named Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
Year 1812 Calendar » Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
Year 1814 Calendar » War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek (people) known as Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814) called Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
Year 1836 Calendar » Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army Goliad massacre called butchers 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
Year 1851 Calendar » First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
Year 1871 Calendar » The 1871 England versus Scotland rugby union match first international rugby football match, when Scotland national rugby union team Scotland defeats England national rugby union team England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
Year 1881 Calendar » Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
Year 1884 Calendar » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would Cincinnati riots of 1884 named riot and destroy the courthouse.
Year 1886 Calendar » Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
Year 1890 Calendar » A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
Year 1899 Calendar » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Philippine Revolutionary Army or Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
Year 1910 Calendar » A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
Year 1915 Calendar » Typhoid Mary, the first Asymptomatic carrier named healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
Year 1941 Calendar » World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the Axis powers or pro-Axis government in a Yugoslavian military coup of March 27, 1941 e.g bloodless coup.
Year 1943 Calendar » World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
Year 1958 Calendar » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
Year 1964 Calendar » The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a moment magnitude scale named magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage, Alaska known as Anchorage.
Year 1975 Calendar » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
Year 1976 Calendar » The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway (rail) or subway system opens.
Year 1977 Calendar » Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
Year 1980 Calendar » The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland (platform) called Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
Year 1980 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from Nelson Bunker Hunt e.g the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
Year 1981 Calendar » The Solidarity (Polish trade union) e.g Solidarity movement in Poland stages a 1981 warning strike in Poland called warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
Year 1986 Calendar » A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Bombing or Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
Year 1990 Calendar » The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Fidel Castro called Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
Year 1993 Calendar » Italian former minister and Christian Democracy (Italy) known as Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
Year 1998 Calendar » The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
Year 1999 Calendar » Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
Year 2000 Calendar » A Phillips explosion of 2000 or Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
Year 2002 Calendar » Passover massacre: A Palestinian people e.g Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover Seder named Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
Year 2002 » Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
Year 2004 Calendar » HMS Scylla F71 6, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
Year 2009 Calendar » The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
Year 2009 » A suicide bombing e.g suicide bomber 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing known as kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.