25th April 404 BCE: Sparta defeats Athens in the Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian ...
25 Apr 0s
24th April 1916: Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions set off in James Caird, a recovered lifeboat, to sail from Elephant Island to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean
Despite all the odds stacked against them, the crew of the tiny boat reached South Georgia in 16 days and then crossed to the whaling station at ...
24 Apr 0s
23rd April 2005: “Me at the zoo” is the first video to be uploaded to YouTube
The video of co-founder Jawed Karim shows him speaking in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California, and lasts approximately eighteen ...
23 Apr 0s
22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride
Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle around the ...
22 Apr 0s
21st April 1918: Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shot down and killed
The German fighter pilot Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, was shot down and ...
21 Apr 0s
20th April 1968: Enoch Powell delivers his controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech on immigration
Powell argued that continued immigration would create social tension in Britain, illustrating his argument with a quotation from the Roman poet Virgil describing a vision of “the River Tiber foaming w...
20 Apr 0s
19th April 1839: The Treaty of London establishes an independent Belgium
The Treaty of London was signed, which recognised and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of ...
19 Apr 0s
18th April 1506: Construction begins on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome
Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred ...
18 Apr 0s
