What happened on 10 April?

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

1. 1998 Good Friday Agreement Multi-party peace agreement substantially ends the Northern Ireland Troubles.
2. 1925 The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald's elegy for the American Dream, set in Jazz Age Long Island.
3. 1998 The Troubles end Good Friday Agreement marks the conventional end of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
4. 2019 First image of a black hole Event Horizon Telescope releases a picture of the supermassive black hole in M87.
5. 1919 Assassination of Emiliano Zapata Lured to a hacienda at Chinameca by a colonel feigning defection, the apostle of 'Land and Liberty' is shot dead by an honour guard as he rides through the gate. Carranza gets his
6. 1302 Estates-General first convened Philip IV convenes the first Estates-General to support him against the Pope.
7. 1826 The fall of Missolonghi After a year's siege by Ottoman and Egyptian armies, Missolonghi's starving defenders stake everything on a mass night breakout — betrayed, and ending in slaughter, with the last d
8. 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora The largest eruption in recorded history blows the summit off Tambora, kills tens of thousands in Indonesia and veils the world's skies with ash.
9. 1993 The assassination of Chris Hani A white supremacist shoots the most popular ANC leader after Mandela in his own driveway — and the transition teeters on the edge of race war. It is saved by an Afrikaner neighbour
10. 1848 Kennington Common Chartist meeting Chartists deliver a giant petition to Parliament; movement begins to wane after this peak.
11. 1970 The Beatles break up Paul McCartney announces his departure, formally ending the most influential band in popular music.
12. 1606 First Virginia Charter James I charters the Virginia Company to plant colonies in America — the legal instrument behind Jamestown and England's empire to come.