What happened on 5 April?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1908 H. H. Asquith's premiership The People's Budget, the Parliament Act, the suffragette struggle and the first two years of the Great War.
2. 1588 Born: Thomas Hobbes English political philosopher; author of Leviathan; foundational figure of modern political theory and social-contract thought.
3. 1799 Siege of Seringapatam British storm Tipu Sultan's capital; Tipu killed in the assault.
4. 1992 Siege of Sarajevo Longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare (1,425 days). Bosnian Serb forces shell Sarajevo from the surrounding hills; an estimated 13,952 are killed, including 5,434 civil
5. 1818 Maipú secures Chile A year after Chacabuco, San Martín destroys the last royalist army in Chile on the plain of Maipú, embracing O'Higgins on the field. With the Pacific coast secured and a navy build
6. 1976 James Callaghan's premiership The IMF loan, the Lib-Lab pact and the Winter of Discontent that ended the post-war consensus.
7. 1242 Battle on the Ice (Lake Peipus) Alexander Nevsky defeats the Teutonic Knights on the frozen Lake Peipus; halts German eastward expansion against Novgorod.
8. 1794 Danton is guillotined The Revolution devours its most human giant: Georges Danton, hero of 1792, is condemned for urging an end to the Terror and denied a defence. 'Show my head to the people,' he tells
9. 1827 Born: Joseph Lister British surgeon who introduced antiseptic methods, slashing post-operative deaths.
10. 1614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe The marriage that sealed the Peace of Pocahontas between Jamestown and the Powhatan — and produced the colony's first transatlantic celebrity.