Historical Events In April - 13

0837  Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years   

0989  The Byzantine emperor Basil II uses 6,000 Russians to help him defeat Bardas Phocas at Abydos in Anatolia April 13, ending the threat to Constantinople   

0989  Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas   

1055  Bishop Gebhard van Eichstattt named Pope Victor II   

1111  Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II   

1180  Republic day of Gelnhausen   

1204  Crusaders occupy Constantinople   

1241  Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV   

1250  The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured   

1256  The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae   

1346  Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy   

1506  Peter faber: French jesuit theologian   

1519  Catherine de' médici: Queen of spain/daughter of henry ii   

1519  De medicis: Queen consort (henry ii of france)   

1545  Elisabeth van valois: French queen of spain/daughter of henri ii   

1547  Elisabeth of valois: Third wife of philip ii of spain   

1570  Guy fawkes: English catholic conspirator   

1573  Christina of holstein-gottorp: Queen consort of sweden   

1584  Albert vi of bavaria: Albert vi of bavaria (d. 1666)   

0799  Paulus diaconus warnafridi: Longobardisch writer,   

0814  Krum of bulgaria: Krum of bulgaria   

1093  Prince vsevolod i of kiev: Prince vsevolod i of kiev (b. 1030)   

1279  Boleslaw the pious: Polish duke   

1517  Tuman bey: Last mamelukken sultan of egypt, hanged   

1612  Sasaki kojirō: Japanese samurai   

1635  Fakhr-al-din ii: Druze prince of lebanon (b. 1572)   

1641  Richard montagu: English clergyman (b. 1577)