What happend on 12th April

11.04
13.04
1865

American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama falls to the Union Army

1864

American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee

1861

American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina

1633

The formal interrogation by the Inquisition of Galileo Galilei begins.

1606

The Union Flag is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.