What happened on 24 April?

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

1. 1916 Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence Armed Irish republican uprising; leads to the 1922 Irish Free State.
2. 1916 Easter Rising (Dublin) Irish nationalists declare a republic in Dublin; brutally suppressed by British troops.
3. 1915 Armenian genocide Ottoman government's systematic killing and deportation of Armenian Christians; estimated 1 million dead.
4. 1990 Hubble Space Telescope launched Orbital telescope that gave humanity its sharpest view of the deep universe.
5. 1877 Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) Russia defeats Ottomans; Treaty of San Stefano then Berlin Congress creates independent Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, autonomous Bulgaria.
6. 1973 Born: Sachin Tendulkar Cricket legend; widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen.
7. 1916 The voyage of the James Caird Shackleton and five men sail a 22-foot open boat 800 miles across the worst ocean on earth to South Georgia, navigating by four sun sights in sixteen days — then cross the island's
8. 1856 Born: Philippe Pétain Hero of Verdun who became collaborationist Vichy head of state.
9. 1533 Born: William the Silent Prince of Orange and leader of the Dutch Revolt against Philip II — 'Father of the Fatherland'. Assassinated at Delft by a Catholic sympathiser claiming Philip's bounty, the first
10. 1980 Operation Eagle Claw fails in the desert America's secret mission to rescue the hostages dies at a desert refuelling strip: helicopters fail in a dust storm, the mission is aborted, and a collision on the ground kills eig
11. 1915 Arrest of Armenian intellectuals (Red Sunday) Ottoman authorities arrest and deport Armenian leaders in Constantinople, the symbolic start of the genocide.
12. 1914 Larne gun-running Ulster Volunteers smuggle German rifles into Larne; sectarian tensions on the eve of WW1.
13. 2023 India overtakes China in population UN data shows India is now the world's most populous nation.
14. 2013 Rana Plaza collapse A Bangladeshi garment factory collapses, killing over 1,100 workers and exposing the human cost of fast fashion.
15. 1976 Reich's Music for 18 Musicians Minimalist masterpiece of pulse and harmonic shift.
16. 1066 Halley's Comet blazes over England A comet four times the size of Venus hangs over England for a week in the spring of the succession crisis — an omen, everyone agrees, though of what depends on whose side you are o
17. 1967 Death of Vladimir Komarov Soyuz 1's parachute fails and Komarov becomes the first human to die on a spaceflight — launched, like Apollo 1's crew, by deadline pressure on unready machines.
18. 1547 Battle of Mühlberg Charles V crushes the Protestant Schmalkaldic League on the Elbe — the emperor's high-water mark, fixed forever in Titian's equestrian portrait.