On April 12
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly April 12 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Apr 9 – Apr 15)
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…
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.
On 15 April 1874 a group of independent artists opened their first exhibition in the former studio of the photographer Nadar on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, bypassing the official Salon.
Beginning on 15 April 1989, sparked by the death of reformist Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang, students and citizens gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to demand political reform, press freedom and an end to corruption.
On 14 April 2003 the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the essentially complete sequence of the human genome, more than two years ahead of schedule.
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…