What happened on 5 April?

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

1. 33 The Resurrection The Gospels: the stone rolled away at dawn on the first day of the week — "He is not here: for he is risen".
2. 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.
3. 1588 Born: Thomas Hobbes English political philosopher; author of Leviathan; foundational figure of modern political theory and social-contract thought.
4. 1799 Siege of Seringapatam British storm Tipu Sultan's capital; Tipu killed in the assault.
5. 1992 Siege of Sarajevo One of the longest sieges of a capital city in modern warfare (1,425 days): Bosnian Serb forces shell Sarajevo from the surrounding hills, and thousands of civilians are among thos
6. 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
7. 1976 James Callaghan's premiership The IMF loan, the Lib-Lab pact and the Winter of Discontent that ended the post-war consensus.
8. 33 The road to Emmaus Luke 24: a stranger joins two disciples on the road and opens the Scriptures — known to them at last in the breaking of bread.
9. 1242 Battle on the Ice (Lake Peipus) Alexander Nevsky defeats the Teutonic Knights on the frozen Lake Peipus; halts German eastward expansion against Novgorod.
10. 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
11. 1827 Born: Joseph Lister British surgeon who introduced antiseptic methods, slashing post-operative deaths.
12. 1971 Manifesto of the 343 Written by Beauvoir, a declaration by 343 French women — Deneuve and Duras among them — that they have had illegal abortions, daring the state to prosecute.
13. 1175 BCE Landed asleep on Ithaca Odyssey 13: the Phaeacian ship lays him on his own shore without waking him, and Athena wraps the island in mist — he does not know it for home.
14. 1874 Strauss II's Die Fledermaus The Waltz King's operetta of champagne, masked balls and a prank's revenge premieres at the Theater an der Wien and becomes the most performed operetta of all.
15. 1175 BCE Eumaeus shelters the beggar Odyssey 14: the loyal swineherd feeds a ragged stranger by his fire, and grieves for a master he does not know is sitting across from him.
16. 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.