On this day: 13 April
Events, births and deaths on 13 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Mario Vargas Llosa
- Deaths · Jean Marsh
- Deaths · Richard Armitage
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
- Births · Ellie Lambeti
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1113 · Deaths · Ida of Lorraine
- 989 · Deaths · Bardas Phokas the Younger
- 1036 · Deaths · Herbert I, Count of Maine
Events · 28
- 710(Julian date)Heijō-kyō — capital city of Japan during the Nara period, 710–740 and 745–784
- 1175(Julian date)Battle of the Horns of Hama — 1175 Egyptian victory over the Zengids
- 1204(Julian date)Siege of Constantinople — 1204 siege
- 1598Edict of Nantes — Edict granting rights for Huguenots
- 1777Battle of Bound Brook — 1777 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1849Hungarian Declaration of Independence — declaration of independence of the Republic of Hungary from the Habsburg Empire in 1849
- 1873Colfax massacre — armed confrontation between Republicans and Democrats in Colfax, Louisiana
- 190931 March Incident — 1909 rebellion of conservative reactionaries in Constantinople
- 1919Jallianwala Bagh massacre — British Indian Army troops fire their rifles into crowd of unarmed Indian civilians (1919)
- 1922Scout Association of Japan — The Scouting organization in Japan
- 1924A.E.K. — multi-sports club in Greece
- 1941Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact — 1941 bilateral treaty
- 1948Hadassah medical convoy massacre — About 80 Jews on a civilian convoy to Mount Scopus enclave, including medical personnel, slaughtered by Muslim Arabs living in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem against the indifference of the British forces during the inter-communal stage of the 1948 War
- 1953Project MKUltra — secret CIA program including enforced drug experiments on unwitting humans, mainly U.S. citizens, in hospitals and psychiatric institutions
- 196436th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1963
- 1972Battle of An Lộc — Battle in Southeast, South Vietnam in the Easter Offensive 1972
- 1975Lebanese Civil War — 1975–1990 Civil War in Lebanon
- 1975
- 1976Lapua Cartridge Factory Explosion — explosion in Lapua, Finland, on 13 April 1976
- 1996Mansouri massacre — Massacre committed by the IDF in South Lebanon
- 2006Battle of N'Djamena — 2006 battle
- 2009Homestuck — webcomic by Andrew Hussie
- 2009Kamień Pomorski homeless hostel fire — homeless hostel fire (Kamień Pomorski, Poland, 2009.04.13)
- 2013Lion Air Flight 904 — 2013 aircraft crash in Bali, Indonesia
- 2014Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting — two shootings on April 13, 2014
- 2015Liberland — unrecognized micronation in Eastern Europe
- 2017April 2017 Achin airstrike — 2017 US aerial attack in eastern Afghanistan
- 20242024 Westfield Bondi Junction stabbings — mass murder in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Births · 60
- 1350(Julian date)Margaret III, Countess of Flanders — Countess suo jure of Flanders (1350-1405)
- 1506(Julian date)Peter Faber — Jesuit priest and evangelist
- 1519(Julian date)Catherine de' Medici — queen-consort and regent of France (1519–1589)
- 1570(Julian date)Guy Fawkes — English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
- 1618Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy — French writer (1618–1693)
- 1732Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford — British statesman and Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782 (1732-1792)
- 1747Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans — French duke (1747-1793)
- 1764Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr — Marshal of France (1764-1830)
- 1769Thomas Lawrence — English portrait painter (1769–1830)
- 1771Richard Trevithick — British inventor and mining engineer (1771-1833)
- 1802Leopold Fitzinger — Austrian zoologist (1802-1884)
- 1808Antonio Meucci — Italian inventor and telephone pioneer (1808–1889)
- 1828Josephine Butler — British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution (1828–1906)
- 1860James Ensor — Belgian painter (1860–1949)
- 1866Butch Cassidy — American Old West outlaw (1866–1908)
- 1885Georg Lukács — Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic (1885–1971)
- 1892Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet — Royal Air Force air marshal and writer (1892-1984)
- 1892Robert Watson-Watt — physicist (1892-1973)
- 1894Arthur Fadden — Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (1894-1973)
- 1899Alfred Schütz — American sociologist (1899–1959)
- 1901Jacques Lacan — French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)
- 1906Samuel Beckett — Irish writer (1906–1989)
- 1909Stanisław Ulam — Polish-American mathematician (1909–1984)
- 1909Eudora Welty — American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909-2001)
- 1919Howard Keel — American actor and singer (1919–2004)
Deaths · 60
- 814(Julian date)Krum — Bulgarian ruler
- 862(Julian date)Domnall mac Ailpín — King of the Picts from 858 to 862
- 989Bardas Phokas the Younger — 10th-century Byzantine general
- 1113(Julian date)Ida of Lorraine — French saint and noblewoman
- 1275(Julian date)Eleanor of Leicester — English princess
- 1592Bartolomeo Ammannati — Italian architect and sculptor (1511-1592)
- 1605(Julian date)Boris Godunov — Russian Tsar (1598–1605)
- 1635Fakhr-al-Din II — Lebanese prince
- 1695Jean de La Fontaine — French poet, fabulist and writer (1621–1695)
- 1794Nicolas Chamfort — French journalist and moralistic author
- 1794Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette — French politician (1763-1794)
- 1826Franz Danzi — German composer and musician
- 1853Leopold Gmelin — German chemist (1788–1853)
- 1855Henry De la Beche — English geologist, palaeontologist and Slave plantations owner (1796–1855)
- 1868Tewodros II — Emperor of Ethiopia (1818–1868)
- 1880Robert Fortune — British botanist
- 1882Bruno Bauer — German philosopher and theologian (1809–1882)
- 1912Takuboku Ishikawa — Japanese poet (1886-1912)
- 1918Lavr Kornilov — Imperial Russian Army general (1870–1918)
- 1929Gotō Shinpei — Japanese statesman (1857-1929)
- 1936Konstantinos Demertzis — Greek politician (1876-1936)
- 1938Grey Owl — Canadian writer and lecturer (1888–1938) who passed as half Indian in the latter years of his life
- 1941Annie Jump Cannon — American astronomer (1863-1941)
- 1942Henk Sneevliet — 20th-century Dutch communist politician (1883–1942)
- 1944Cécile Chaminade — French composer and pianist (1857-1944)
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