It happened today – this day in history – April 13
1250: The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt and Louis IX of France is captured. 1517: The Ottoman army occupies
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It happened today – this day in history – April 17
1397: Geoffrey Chaucer tells the “Canterbury Tales” for the first time at the court of Richard II. 1492: Christopher Columbus
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It happened today – this day in history – April 13
1570: Birth of Guy Fawkes. 1668: John Dryden is appointed the first Poet Laureate by Charles I. 1742: Handel’s oratorio
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It happened today – this day in history – April 11
1471: In the Wars of the Roses King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI. 1814: Napoleon abdicates
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