49081 | April 28 | Holiday and observance | National Day (Sardinia) (see it:Moti rivoluzionari sardi) |
49082 | April 28 | Holiday and observance | Restoration of Sovereignty Day (Japan) |
49083 | April 28 | Holiday and observance | The first day of the Floralia, in honor of Flora. (Roman Empire) |
49084 | April 29 | Event | 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. |
49085 | April 29 | Event | 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal. |
49086 | April 29 | Event | 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans. |
49087 | April 29 | Event | 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile. |
49088 | April 29 | Event | 1521 – Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Västerås and soon capture the city of Västerås. The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 Janu |
49089 | April 29 | Event | 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia. |
49090 | April 29 | Event | 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique. |
49091 | April 29 | Event | 1832 – Évariste Galois is released from prison. |
49092 | April 29 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. |
49093 | April 29 | Event | 1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut. |
49094 | April 29 | Event | 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War. |
49095 | April 29 | Event | 1882 – The "Elektromote", forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin. |
49096 | April 29 | Event | 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada. |
49097 | April 29 | Event | 1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public. |
49098 | April 29 | Event | 1916 – World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point. |
49099 | April 29 | Event | 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin. |
49100 | April 29 | Event | 1944 – World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group. |
49101 | April 29 | Event | 1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies. |
49102 | April 29 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna. |
49103 | April 29 | Event | 1945 – World War II: The Captain-class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II. |
49104 | April 29 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day. |
49105 | April 29 | Event | 1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops. |
49106 | April 29 | Event | 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces. |
49107 | April 29 | Event | 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes. |
49108 | April 29 | Event | 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. |
49109 | April 29 | Event | 1951 – Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy. |
49110 | April 29 | Event | 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. |