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24th April 1916: The Easter Rising begins in Dublin

The Easter Rising began in Dublin, with the aim of securing an independent Irish ...

23rd April 1985: Coca-Cola introduce New Coke as ‘the new taste of Coca-Cola’ as a replacement for the original formula

Marking the first major formula change in 99 years, ‘new Coke’ is widely heralded as one of the biggest marketing failures in ...

22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle around the ...

21st April 753 BCE: The ancient city of Rome is founded

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20th April 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie prove the existence of radium

Marie and Pierre Curie proved the existence of the new element radium when they chemically isolated one-tenth of a gram of pure radium ...

19th April 1770: British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia from HMS Endeavour

The first sighting had been of Point Hicks, but it wasn’t until the ship had travelled some distance along the coast to what is now known as Botany Bay that Cook and his crew felt they had found a suitable ...

18th April 1506: Construction begins on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome

Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred ...

17th April 1492: Christopher Columbus secures support for his first voyage across the Atlantic from the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand

The Capitulations of Santa Fe granted a number of official titles to Columbus as well as ten per cent of any treasure he was able to secure on his ...

16th April 1917: Lenin arrives back in Russia in the sealed train after a decade in exile

Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed ...

15th April 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’ in London

Johnson’s finished dictionary contained 42,773 words, each of which featured a number of notes on their specific ...