What happened on 23 April?

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

1. 1880 William Gladstone's second premiership The Third Reform Act, the occupation of Egypt and the death of General Gordon at Khartoum.
2. 1014 Battle of Clontarf Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, breaks Viking power near Dublin though he is killed in the fighting.
3. 1175 BCE Peace in Ithaca Odyssey 24: Odysseus finds old Laertes in his orchard, the suitors' kin march out for vengeance — and Athena, with a word from Zeus, ends the epic in peace.
4. 1920 The Grand National Assembly convenes at Ankara With Istanbul under Allied occupation and parliament dissolved, the nationalists convene their own assembly in a dusty railway town on the Anatolian plateau — a rival government wi
5. 2008 A Milli (Lil Wayne) Bangladesh's one-loop beat and a torrent of Wayne's free association.
6. 2016 Beyonce releases Lemonade Visual album exploring infidelity, race, and Black womanhood.
7. 1445 Henry VI marries Margaret of Anjou The fifteen-year-old French princess marries Henry VI at Titchfield Abbey — a peace match secretly bought with the promise to surrender Maine to France.
8. 1969 Open University founded Wilson's 'university of the air', driven through by Jennie Lee, receives its royal charter: open to anyone, teaching by post and late-night BBC broadcasts — he called it his proude