1400 – The Trần Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
1568 – The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart, son of King James II, lands at the Firth of Forth.
1757 – Capture of Chandannagar fort in West Bengal from the France by British forces.
1775 – One month before the beginning of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry delivers a speech in which he is said to have declared, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" to the Virginia Provincial Convention at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
1839 – The term “OK” first entered American vernacular after being published in the Boston Morning Post. At that time, “OK” was used as an abbreviation for the phrase “Oll Korrect,” which is itself a misspelled version of “all correct”.
1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1862 – The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
1867 – Despite a veto by President Andrew Jackson, congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act.
1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hung Hoa, northern Vietnam.
1888 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, meets for the first time.
1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India.
1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by forces of General Frederick Funston.
1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1918 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming Prisoners of war.
1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (Fascist political movement), the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.
1929 – During the Hoover administration the first telephone at the President’s desk in the White House is installed.
1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
1933 – The German Reichstag adopts the Enabling Act of 1933, which effectively grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
1935 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1939 – The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War.
1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1942 – World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan).
1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1965 – The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum.
1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
1994 – A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 – Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
2005 – Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
2009 – FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
celebrated on Monday after Easter
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Maronite Church)
Turibius of Mongrovejo
Turibius of Mongrovejo
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius,
the notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (125)
Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)
Martyr Dometius in Phrygia (360-361)
the notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (125)
Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)
Martyr Dometius in Phrygia (360-361)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Victorian, Frumentius and Companions (484)
Saint Gwinear of Cornwall (5th c.)
Saint Felix and Companions, a group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa (5th c.)
Saint Fidelis, a martyr in North Africa
Saint Maidoc (Mo-Mhaedog), Abbot of Fiddown in Kilkenny in Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit), hermit in the Campagna in Italy,
miraculously delivered from death by burning at the hands of Totila the Goth (550)
Saint Æthelwold, a monk at Ripon in England, he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne
for twelve years (699)
Saint Felix of Montecassino (ca. 1000)
Saint Gwinear of Cornwall (5th c.)
Saint Felix and Companions, a group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa (5th c.)
Saint Fidelis, a martyr in North Africa
Saint Maidoc (Mo-Mhaedog), Abbot of Fiddown in Kilkenny in Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit), hermit in the Campagna in Italy,
miraculously delivered from death by burning at the hands of Totila the Goth (550)
Saint Æthelwold, a monk at Ripon in England, he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne
for twelve years (699)
Saint Felix of Montecassino (ca. 1000)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Nicon, abbot of the Kiev Caves (1088)
Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (13th c.)
Venerable Pachomius, Abbot of Nerekhta (1384)
Saint Bassian, archbishop of Rostov (1481)
Venerable Theodosius the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour
in Totma, Russia (1568)
Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1600)
New Monk-martyr Luke the New of Adrianople and Mt. Athos, at Mytilene (1802)
New Martyr Panagiotis at Jerusalem (1820)
Saint Elena (Bakhteiv), Nun of the Florovsk Ascension Convent in Kiev (1834)
Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (13th c.)
Venerable Pachomius, Abbot of Nerekhta (1384)
Saint Bassian, archbishop of Rostov (1481)
Venerable Theodosius the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour
in Totma, Russia (1568)
Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1600)
New Monk-martyr Luke the New of Adrianople and Mt. Athos, at Mytilene (1802)
New Martyr Panagiotis at Jerusalem (1820)
Saint Elena (Bakhteiv), Nun of the Florovsk Ascension Convent in Kiev (1834)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Macarius (Kvitkin), Protopresbyter of Orenburg (1931)
New Hieromartyr Elijah (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery
of the Nativity of the Theotokos (Vladimir) (1938)
New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklyn,[note 8] and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938)
New Martyr James (1938)
Virgin-martyr Anastasia Bobkova (1938)
Martyr Alexis Skorobogatov (1938)
New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)
New Hieromartyr Elijah (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery
of the Nativity of the Theotokos (Vladimir) (1938)
New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklyn,[note 8] and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938)
New Martyr James (1938)
Virgin-martyr Anastasia Bobkova (1938)
Martyr Alexis Skorobogatov (1938)
New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)
Other commemorations
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