Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.

PetrarchMont Ventoux

The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.

Pazzi familyLorenzo de' MediciGiuliano de' MediciSolemn MassFlorence Cathedral

Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).

William ShakespeareStratford-upon-AvonWarwickshire

English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

Cape HenryVirginia

A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.

1721 Tabriz earthquakeTabriz

Legend tells that Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces

Sybil LudingtonBritish Armed Forces

Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.

Battle of Beaumont (1794)Flanders CampaignWar of the First Coalition

Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

NapoleonÉmigréFrench RevolutionAncien Régime

Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.

L'Aigle (meteorite)L'Aigle

First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.

First Barbary WarUnited States MarinesBattle of DerneDerna, LibyaFirst Lieutenant

American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.

American Civil WarConfederate States of AmericaGeneral officers in the Confederate States ArmyJoseph E. JohnstonGeneral (United States)

Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

Union (American Civil War)John Wilkes BoothAssassination of Abraham LincolnVirginia

Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded

Atlético MadridAssociation football

The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.

George VIQueen Elizabeth The Queen MotherWestminster Abbey

Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

Paul von HindenburgWilhelm MarxGerman presidential election, 1925Head of stateWeimar Republic

The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

GestapoSecret policeNazi Germany

Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

Spanish Civil WarGuernicaBombing of GuernicaLuftwaffe

Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.

Benxihu CollieryManchukuo

The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.

Easter RiotsUppsala

Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.

Georgios PapandreouEgypt

Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.

Heinrich KreipeAxis occupation of Greece

World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

Battle of Bautzen (1945)Wehrmacht

World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

Baguio CityTomoyuki Yamashita

The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

Geneva Conference (1954)Indochina

SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

SS Ideal XContainer shipPort Newark-Elizabeth Marine TerminalHouston

Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

Baltimore and Ohio RailroadRoyal Blue (train)Railway electrification system

Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.

April RevolutionPresident of South KoreaSyngman Rhee

NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

NASARanger 4Moon

In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.

LibyaKingdom of Libya

Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

TanganyikaZanzibarTanzania