WHAT HAPPENED ON 13. APRIL
Want to find out what all happened on 13. April

Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. (13. April 1111)

Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. (13. April 1204)

Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.) (13. April 1598)

Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island. (13. April 1612)

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. (13. April 1613)

Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the Tenth Sikh Guru, Created Khalsa on this day at Anandpur Sahib, Punjab. (13. April 1699)

George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland. (13. April 1742)

American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey. (13. April 1777)

The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India. (13. April 1796)

The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament. (13. April 1829)

Hungary becomes a republic. (13. April 1849)

American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces. (13. April 1861)

The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala. (13. April 1868)

The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. (13. April 1870)

The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place. (13. April 1873)

James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (13. April 1902)

The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. (13. April 1909)

The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. (13. April 1919)

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded. (13. April 1919)

Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I. (13. April 1919)