What happened on 11 April?

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

1. 1912 Irish revolutionary period Eleven years that unmade the Union: the Home Rule crisis and its private armies, the Easter Rising, the guerrilla war against Britain, partition, the Treaty — and the civil war Iri
2. 1814 Napoleon abdicates (Fontainebleau) After allies enter Paris, Napoleon abdicates unconditionally at Fontainebleau; sent to Elba; Bourbons restored.
3. 1970 Apollo 13 crisis Oxygen tank explosion aboard Apollo 13; crew returned safely.
4. 1727 Bach's St Matthew Passion Bach's three-hour Passion oratorio; one of the great works of sacred music.
5. 1713 Treaty of Utrecht Major peace settlement ending the War of the Spanish Succession; cements British naval and commercial supremacy.
6. 1822 The Chios massacre Ottoman forces answer a raid on the prosperous island of Chios by killing or enslaving most of its hundred thousand inhabitants. Delacroix's vast canvas of the scene hangs in the S
7. 1796 Napoleon's Italian Campaign Made Bonaparte's reputation; outmanoeuvred Austrians, reorganised northern Italy.
8. 1951 Truman dismisses MacArthur President Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur over his public demand to expand the Korean War to China.
9. 1241 Battle of Mohi The Mongols annihilate the Hungarian army, devastating Central Europe at the high-water mark of their western invasion.
10. 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing) Federal ban on housing discrimination.
11. 1918 Haig's 'Backs to the wall' order With the Germans through the line at Lys, Haig tells his armies there is no retreat: 'Each one of us must fight on to the end.'
12. 1912 Asquith introduces the Third Home Rule Bill With the Lords' veto newly broken, a Dublin parliament for Ireland becomes a matter of parliamentary arithmetic — and Ulster's unionists, who would rather fight than be governed fr
13. 1961 Eichmann trial Israel tries the Holocaust organiser Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, a landmark of confronting the Shoah.
14. 2019 Sudanese Revolution Mass protests force the military to oust dictator Omar al-Bashir after 30 years in power.
15. 1952 Singin' in the Rain released Hollywood musical about the transition from silent to sound film.
16. 1981 1981 England riots Brixton erupts in April; Toxteth, Handsworth, Moss Side and dozens of other areas follow in July — youth and police in open confrontation amid recession and the resented 'sus' stop