On This Day in History for April 5
Events in History
- 456 Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
- 823 Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I as co-emperor of France
- 1058 Bishop Giovanni "Minchus" ["the thin"] elected as Anti-Pope Benedict X
- 1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice
- 1424 Scottish King James I returns to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court
- 1566 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
- 1585 Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
- 1603 New English King James I (James VI of Scotland) departs Edinburgh for London
- More Events in History
Thomas Hobbes
Booker T. Washington
Nguyen Van Thieu
Colin Powell
Gloria Macapagal-ArroyoWeddings in History
- 1614 American Indian princess Pocahontas and daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist John Rolfe
- 1653 Dutch painter Jan Vermeer marries Catharina Bolenes in Schipluiden
More Weddings in History
Georges Danton
Douglas MacArthur
Sam Walton
Allen Ginsberg
Saul BellowApril in History
‘I Do’ Says Pocahontas
Pocahontas, the native American princess regarded by many as the mother of modern America, was married on this day, aged about nineteen, to an English settler
April 5, 1614
Poon Lim's 133 Day South Atlantic Odyssey
Poon Lim and his raft, photo made on request of the US Navy for its Survival Training.
April 5, 1943
Easter Island Moai
Two Moai on the Rano Raraku crater on Rapa Nui from a 1914-15 expedition photograph held in the British Museum
April 5, 1722
Lionheart Richard, The Stranger King
Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood’s king is considered one of the great English monarchs. Yet he cost his country a fortune and barely lived there.
April 6, 1199