On April 10
On April 10, 2 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Eruption of Mount Tambora and the Year Without a Summer (1815).
On this day
On 10 April 1815 Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) erupted in the most powerful volcanic event in recorded history, a VEI-7 explosion that ejected roughly 40 cubic kilometres of material and…
Signed on 10 April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement (also called the Belfast Agreement) brought a substantial end to the Troubles, the three-decade ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland between mainly Catholic Irish nationalists…
Also this week in history (Apr 7 – Apr 13)
Over roughly 100 days from 7 April 1994, members of Rwanda's Hutu-led government, army and allied militias such as the Interahamwe carried out a systematic genocide against the Tutsi minority, also killing moderate Hutu and Twa.
On 9 April 1288, the forces of Dai Viet, commanded by the Tran-dynasty grand commander Tran Hung Dao, annihilated the invading Yuan-Mongol fleet on the estuary of the Bach Dang River in present-day Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam.
On 13 April 1598 King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting French Protestants (Huguenots) substantial rights of conscience and worship and bringing the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) to a close.