What is April 18?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1506]] &ndash; The cornerstone for the present [[Saint Peter's Basilica]] in [[Rome]] is laid. * [[1518]] &ndash; [[Bona Sforza]] is crowned [[Queen]] of [[Poland]]. * [[1521]] &ndash; The trial of [[Martin Luther]] begins its second day during the assembly of the [[Diet of Worms]]. * [[1689]] &ndash; [[Boston, Massachusetts|Bostonians]] rise up in rebellion against Sir [[Edmund Andros]]. * [[1738]] &ndash; [[Madrid]]'s Royal Academy of [[History]] is founded. * [[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: [[Paul Revere]]'s ride, to warn the countryside of troop movements. * [[1797]] &ndash; [[France]] defeats [[Austria]] in the [[Battle of Neuwied]]. * [[1807]] &ndash; A [[ferry]] capsizes in the port of [[Harwich]], [[Essex]], [[England]], killing between 60 and 90 people. * [[1831]] &ndash; The [[University of Alabama]] is founded. * [[1848]] &ndash; An American victory at the [[Battle of Cerro Gordo]] opens the way for the invasion of [[Mexico]] in the [[Mexican-American War]]. * [[1880]] &ndash; A [[tornado]] in Marshfield, [[Missouri]], kills 99 people. * [[1881]] &ndash; [[Billy the Kid]] escapes from Lincoln County [[jail]] in Mesilla, [[New Mexico]]. * [[1888]] &ndash; British passenger [[steam]]er ''State of Florida'' sinks in the North [[Atlantic Ocean]] after a collision with a [[sailing ship]], killing 130 people. * [[1897]] &ndash; The [[Greco-Turkish War]] is declared. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1902]] &ndash; [[Quetzaltenango]], [[Guatemala]] is destroyed by an [[earthquake]]. * [[1906]] &ndash; [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]: [[San Francisco]], [[California]] is largely destroyed by a major earthquake, and subsequent fires. Estimates suggest that 3,000 people have died, some of them after Mayor [[Eugene Schmitz]] orders a shoot–to–kill policy against looters. Operatic [[tenor]] [[Enrico Caruso]], who was in the city at the time, fled, never to return. * [[1909]] &ndash; [[Joan of Arc]] is [[Beatification|beatified]] in [[Rome]]. * [[19