What happend on 1st April

31.03
02.04
1865

American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks

1857

Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.

1854

Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.

1826

Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

1789

In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

1572

The Watergeuzen succeeded in capturing Den Briel, effectively sealing off the Meuse from the Spaniards.

1318

Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English