Events & Holidays In April - 11

Battle of Rivas (Costa Rica)

Liberation Day (Uganda)

National Heroes Day (Costa Rica)

0146  On this day in history birth of septimius Severus (d. 211)   

1370  On this day in history birth of frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony   

1374  On this day in history birth of roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)   

1492  On this day in history birth of marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)   

1586  On this day in history birth of pietro Della Valle, composer   

1602  On this day in history birth of johann Neukrantz, composer   

1638  On this day in history birth of diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer   

1661  On this day in history birth of antoine Coypel, French painter/poet   

0678  On this day in history donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies   

1034  Death of Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife on this day in history.   

1240  On this day in history llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies   

1500  On this day in history death of michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns   

1512  Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle on this day in history.   

1554  Death of Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521) on this day in history.   

1612  Death of Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566) on this day in history.   

1626  Death of Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568) on this day in history.