What is April 13?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1111]] &ndash; [[Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor]] is crowned. * [[1204]] &ndash; [[Constantinople]] falls to the crusaders of the [[Fourth Crusade]], temporarily ending the [[Byzantine Empire]]. * [[1598]] &ndash; [[Henry V of France]] issues the Edict of [[Nantes]], allowing religious freedom for Huguenots. The edict is repealed in [[1685]]. * [[1742]] &ndash; [[George Frideric Handel]]'s [[oratorio]] [[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]] has its world premiere in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]. * [[1749]] &ndash; A [[cyclone]] off Southeast [[India]] sinks British [[ship]]s HMS ''Pembroke'' and HMS ''Namur'', killing 850 people. Only 14 survive. * [[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]; American forces are ambushed and defeated in the [[Battle of Bound Brook]], [[New Jersey]]. * [[1796]] &ndash; The first [[elephant]] ever seen in the [[United States]] arrives from [[India]]. * [[1829]] &ndash; [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholics]] in the [[United Kingdom]] are granted the right to vote and are allowed to sit in [[parliament]]. * [[1849]] &ndash; [[Hungary]] becomes a [[Republic]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Fort Sumter]], [[South Carolina]], surrenders to [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces. * [[1868]] &ndash; The [[Abyssynian War]] ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala. * [[1870]] &ndash; [[New York City]]'s [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] is founded. * [[1873]] &ndash; The Colfax Massacre, in which over 60 [[African American]]s are [[murder]]ed, takes place in [[Colfax, Louisiana]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1904]] &ndash; The [[Russia]]n battleship ''Petropavlovsk'' of the Russian Pacific Fleet hits a [[Japan]]ese mine and sinks. The painter [[Vasily Vereshchagin]] is among those who are killed in the incident. * [[1909]] &ndash; The [[Turkey|Turkish]] [[military]] reverses the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of [[Sultan]] [[Abdul Hamid II]]. * [[1919]] &ndash; Establishm