What is April 8?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[217]] &ndash; [[Roman emperor]] [[Caracalla]] is [[assassinated]] (and succeeded) by his [[Praetorian Guard]] [[prefect]], [[Marcus Opellius Macrinus]]. * [[1093]] &ndash; The new [[Winchester Cathedral]] is [[Dedication|dedicated]]. * [[1139]] &ndash; [[Roger II of Sicily]] is excommunicated by the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. * [[1730]] &ndash; [[Shearith Israel]], the first [[synagogue]] in [[New York City]], is dedicated. * [[1740]] &ndash; [[War of Jenkins' Ear]]: Three British [[ship]]s capture the Spanish third–rate HMS ''Princess''. * [[1742]] &ndash; The first performance of [[George Frideric Handel]]'s [[oratorio]] ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]'', in [[Dublin]]. * [[1767]] &ndash; [[Ayutthaya kingdom]] fell to [[Burma|Burmese]] invaders. * [[1784]] &ndash; [[William Herschel]] discovers six [[Galaxy|Galaxies]]. * [[1820]] &ndash; The [[Venus de Milo]] is discovered on the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] island of [[Melos]]. * [[1832]] &ndash; [[Black Hawk War]]: Around 300 [[United States]] 6th Infantry troops leave [[St. Louis|Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis]] to fight the [[Sauk]] [[Native American]]s. * [[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Mansfield]] – [[United States|Union]] General [[Nathaniel Banks]]' [[Red River Campaign]] is thwarted by [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General [[Richard Taylor (general)|Richard Taylor]]'s forces at [[Mansfield, Louisiana]]. * [[1866]] &ndash; [[Italy]] and [[Prussia]] ally against the [[Austrian Empire]]. * [[1886]] &ndash; [[William Ewart Gladstone]] introduces the first [[Irish Home Rule]] Bill into the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]]. * [[1893]] &ndash; First recorded [[college basketball]] game occurs in [[Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania]] when the [[Geneva College]] Covenanters defeated the [[New Brighton, Pennsylvania|New Brighton]] [[YMCA]]. * [[1899]] &ndash; [[Martha Place]] becomes the first woman to be executed in an [[electric chair]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1904