10th April 837 – Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). 1512 – James V of Scotland was born. 1606 – The Virginia Company of London was established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial […]

9th April 1413 – Henry V was crowned King of England. 1483 – King Edward IV of England died. 1413 – Henry V is crowned King of England. 1626 – Francis Bacon died. 1860 – Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the oldest known recording of an audible human voice. 1940 – Vidkun Quisling seized power […]

8th April 1820 – The famous statue, the Venus de Milo, was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos. 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. 1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed the Entente […]

7th April 1795 – France adopted the metre as the basic measure of length. 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sold the first friction match. 1947 – Henry Ford, the American automobile manufacturer and industrialist died. 1948 – The World Health Organization was established by the United Nations. 1994 – The massacre of Tutsis […]

6th April 1199 – King Richard I of England died from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder. 1320 - The Declaration of Arbroath was signed to declare Scottish independence. 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck established a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape […]

5th April 456 - St. Patrick returned to Ireland as a missionary bishop. 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe. 1621 - The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain. 1722 - The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island. 1904 - The first […]