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What happened on 23 April?

4 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. 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
  4. 2016 Beyonce releases Lemonade Visual album exploring infidelity, race, and Black womanhood.
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