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What happened on April 7
On April 7 history recorded 73 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 140 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 73events
- 160births
- 140deaths
- 14observances
Highlights
Highlights
1655After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII.
The 1655 conclave was convened following the death of Pope Innocent X and ended with the election of Cardinal Fabio Chigi as Alexander VII. The conclave quickly reached a deadlock, with Giulio Cesare Sacchetti receiving 33 votes throughout the conclave, but ne
1831Pedro II became emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
Dom Pedro II, known as "the Magnanimous", was the second and final emperor of the Empire of Brazil. He reigned from 1831 until his deposition in the military coup of 1889, presiding over the longest and most stable reign in Brazilian history.
1862American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh, at the time the bloodiest battle in U.S. history, in Hardin County, Tennessee.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States. The South saw slavery as threatened because of the e
April 7
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V century
- 451
451Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
VI century
XII century
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XV century
XVI century
XVIII century
- 1724
1724Premiere performance of Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. - 1767
1767End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767). - 1788
1788Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory. - 1790
1790Russo-Turkish war (1787–1792): Greek privateer Lambros Katsonis loses three of his ships in the Battle of Andros. - 1795
1795The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass. - 1798
1798The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
XIX century
- 1805
1805Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River. - 1805
1805German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. - 1824
1824The Mechanics' Institution is established in Manchester, England at the Bridgewater Arms hotel, as part of a national movement for the education of working men. The institute is the precursor to three Universities in the city: the University of Manchester, UMIST and the Metropolitan University of Manchester (MMU). - 1831
1831Pedro II becomes emperor of the Empire of Brazil. - 1862
1862American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee. - 1868
1868Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
XX century
- 1906
1906Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. - 1906
1906The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco. - 1922
1922Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms. - 1926
1926Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. - 1933
1933Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.) - 1933
1933Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts. - 1939
1939Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile. - 1939
1939Italy invades Albania. - 1940
1940Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp. - 1943
1943The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches. - 1943
1943Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation. - 1943
1943The National Football League makes helmets mandatory. - 1944
1944In the Fragheto massacre, soldiers belonging to the German 356th Infantry Division kill 30 Italian civilians and 15 partisans near Casteldelci in central-northern Italy. - 1945
1945World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go. - 1946
1946The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. - 1948
1948The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations. - 1954
1954United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference. - 1956
1956Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco. - 1964
1964IBM announces the System/360. - 1965
1965Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C., against the termination of the Colville tribe. - 1968
1968Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim. - 1969
1969The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1. - 1971
1971Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization. - 1972
1972Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh. - 1976
1976Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death. - 1977
1977German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. - 1978
1978Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter. - 1980
1980During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran. - 1982
1982Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested. - 1983
1983During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk. - 1988
1988Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. - 1989
1989Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors. - 1990
1990A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people. - 1990
1990John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair. In 1991 the convictions are reversed on appeal. - 1994
1994Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana. - 1994
1994Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. - 1995
1995First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. - 1999
1999Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.
XXI century
- 2001
2001NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter. - 2003
2003Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later. - 2003
2003Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haitian independence debt. - 2005
2005First release of Git distributed version control system. - 2009
2009Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. - 2009
2009Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent. - 2011
2011The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever. - 2011
2011A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide. - 2017
2017A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others. - 2017
2017U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack. - 2018
2018Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation". Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, before being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court. - 2018
2018Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War. - 2020
2020COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan. - 2020
2020COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier. - 2021
2021COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States. - 2022
2022Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
Best known
Born on April 7
Best known
Died on April 7
821George the Standard-Bearer
Archbishop of Mytilene from 804–815
924Berengar I of Italy
Holy Roman Emperor from 915 to 924
1206Frederick I of Lorraine
Duke of Lorraine from 1205 to 1206
1340Yuri II Boleslav
5th King of Ruthenia
1498Charles VIII of France
King of France from 1483 to 1498
1499Galeotto I Pico
15th-century Italian soldier and nobleman
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast days: Aibert of Crespin
- Christian feast days: Blessed Alexander Rawlins
- Christian feast days: Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley
- Christian feast days: Brynach
- Christian feast days: Hegesippus
- Christian feast days: Henry Walpole
- Christian feast days: Hermann Joseph
- Christian feast days: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
- Christian feast days: Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta
- Christian feast days: Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church (USA))
- Christian feast days: April 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Flag Day (Slovenia)
- Women's Day (Mozambique)
- World Health Day (International observance)
Frequently asked questions
What happened on April 7?
73 documented historical events happened on April 7, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII. On the same day, in another year: Pedro II became emperor of the Empire of Brazil. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on April 7?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on April 7, including Marju Lauristin, Cornelia Frances, Gorden Kaye. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on April 7?
140 people with a Wikipedia article died on April 7, including George the Standard-Bearer, Berengar I of Italy, Frederick I of Lorraine. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on April 7?
14 observances are celebrated on April 7 around the world: Christian feast days: Aibert of Crespin, Christian feast days: Blessed Alexander Rawlins, Christian feast days: Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley, Christian feast days: Brynach, Christian feast days: Hegesippus, Christian feast days: Henry Walpole. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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