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April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). There are 252 days remaining.
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- 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasum .
- 303 - Saint George is put to death because of his strong faith in Christianity.
- 1014 - Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
- 1348 - The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of EnglandEdward III ( 13 November 1312 21 June 1377) was one of the most successful English Kings of mediaeval times. His fifty-year reign began when his father Edward II was deposed on 25 January 1327, and lasted until 1377. Among his immediate predecessors, only was announced (it was St George's Day).
- 1521Events January 3 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. January 28 Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. March 6 Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam. March 16 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. April 7 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu. - Battle of Villalar : King Charles I of SpainCharles ( February 24, 1500 September 21 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor (as Charles V from 1519- 1558; he was also King of Spain from 1516- 1556, officially as Charles I of Spain although often referred to as Charles V ("Carlos Quinto" or "Carlos V") in Spa defeats the Comuneros .
- 1533Events January 25 King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, his second Queen consort. March 30 Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury May 23 King Henry VIII of England marriage with Catherine of Aragon officially declared annulled. Catherin - The Church of EnglandThe Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and is the mother branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. Christianity was planted in Britain in the first or second c annuls the marriage between Catherine of AragonCatherine of Aragon (in Spanish Catalina de Aragon , ( December 16, 1485 January 7, 1536) was Henry VIII of England's first wife. Henry annulled his marriage to her after she had born him a girl, later Mary I. Biography Born in Alcala de Henares, she was and Henry VIII of EnglandHans Holbein the Younger Henry VIII ( 28 June 1491 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. He was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, succeeding his father, Henry VII. He is.
- 1597Events January 24 Battle of Turnhout. Maurice of Nassau defeats a Spanish force under Jean de Rie of Varas in the Netherlands The first opera is considered to have been written. Bali discovered by the Dutch explorer Cornelis Houtman Births Pieter Saenreda - The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed; Queen Elizabeth I of England was in attendance.
- 1660 - Treaty of Oliva between Sweden and Poland.
- 1661 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
- 1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presented his Theory of systems of rays.
- 1867 - William Lincoln patents the Zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
- 1876 - April Uprising in Perushtitsa, Bulgaria
- 1920 - The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
- 1923 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport.
- 1932 - Windmill De Adriaan burns down in Haarlem, the Netherlands
- 1933 - The Gestapo is established in Germany.
- 1934 - An FBI raid in northern Wisconsin goes wrong when George Nelson, aka "Baby Face", kills Special Agent H. Carter Baum.
- 1942 - World War II: Baedeker Raids - German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York, England in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
- 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Palestinian forces.
- 1954 - Hank Aaron hits his first major league home run.
- 1956 - Elvis Presley makes his first appearance in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1967 - Soyuz 1 is launched into orbit, carrying a single cosmonaut, Colonel Vladimir Komarov, who is killed when the spacecraft crashes after returning to earth.
- 1968 - The United Kingdom produces its first decimalised coins, a 5p and a 10p coin.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
- 1971 - The Rolling Stones release the classic album Sticky Fingers
- 1974 - A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crashes in Bali, Indonesia killing 107.
- 1975 - Vietnam War: At Tulane University, U.S. President Gerald Ford states that the war is over as far as the United States is concerned.
- 1979 - fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach.
- 1985 - New Coke, a marketing disaster, was introduced.
- 1990 - Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the British Commonwealth.
- 1993 - Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
- 1994 - Physicists discover the top quark subatomic particle.
- 2001 - Intel introduces the Pentium 4 Processor.
- 2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.
