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April 22 1500 - Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal. 1509 - Henry VIII became king of England. 1616 -...

April 19 1775 - The "shot heard around the world" was fired as Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and...

April 16 1746 - The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles "Bonnie Prince Charlie" Stuart is defeated by the Duke of...

April 12 1861 - The U.S. Civil War began when Fort Sumter in South Carolina was attacked by Confederate forces. 1862 - James J. Andrews...

April 11 1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba. (Napoleon later escaped...

April 10 1790 - The U.S. patent system was formed. 1849 - The safety pin was patented by Walter Hunt in New York. 1866 - The American...

April 9 1413 - The coronation of England’s King Henry V took place in Westminster Abbey. 1731 - Robert Jenkins's ear was cut off...

April 6 1830 - Joseph Smith and five others organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Fayette, New York. 1862 - The...

April 5 1614 - Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony. 1621 - The...

April 4 1818 - Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state. 1841 - President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia...

April 3 1860 - The first Pony Express service began. 1865 - Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. 1882...

April 2 1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in present-day Florida. 1792 - Congress authorized the first U.S. Mint, to...

April 1 1778 - Oliver Pollack created the dollar sign ($). 1789 - Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of...

March 30 1822 - Florida became a U.S. territory. 1842 - Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first used ether as an anesthetic...

March 29 1848 - For the first time in recorded history, Niagara Falls stopped flowing. An ice jam in the Niagara River above the rim of...