Events & Holidays In April - 05

Arbor Day (South Korea)

Ching Ming Festival (Taiwan)

Qingming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day) (China)

1288  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)   

1472  Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510) was born on this day in history.   

1523  On this day in history birth of blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)   

1588  On this day in history birth of thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan)   

1595  On this day in history birth of john Wilson, composer   

1598  On this day in history birth of laurentius Erhard, composer   

1604  Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675) was born on this day in history.   

1622  Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703) was born on this day in history.   

0582  On this day in history death of eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 512)   

0828  Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77 on this day in history.   

1168  Death of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104) on this day in history.   

1258  On this day in history julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies   

1270  Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies on this day in history.   

1419  On this day in history death of vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)   

1531  On this day in history death of richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop   

1605  On this day in history death of adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513)