The Bahri Mamluks defeat the Ilkhanate in the battle of Marj al-Saffar📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 20 April 1303Egyptian dynasty (1250–1382)
Oliver Cromwell dissolves England’s Rump Parliament.📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 20 April 1653English military and political leader (1599–1658)
English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 20 April 1657English naval officer (1598–1657)
Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 20 April 1752Conflict between states of Burma (Myanmar) from 1752–57
France declares war against the “King of Hungary and Bohemia”📜 WARS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 20 April 1792Habsburg monarch from 1792 to 1835
Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 20 April 1809France under Napoleon Bonaparte from 1804 to 1815
American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 20 April 18611861–1865 conflict in the United States
The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 20 April 18761876 rebellion in Ottoman Bulgaria
U.S. President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 20 April 1898President of the United States from 1897 to 1901
Nineteen men📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 20 April 1914April 1914 massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War
Manfred von Richthofen📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 20 April 1918German World War I flying ace (1892–1918)
World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 20 April 1945Subterranean bunker complex for Adolf Hitler
Amethyst incident: The People’s Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 20 April 1949Chinese civil war incident
Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 20 April 19611947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
For the first time in history📜 HISTORY🌍 RUSSIA🗓️ 20 April 2020Spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil
SpaceX’s Starship rocket📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 20 April 2023Reusable superheavy-lift general-purpose launch vehicle
Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 0531Battle of the Iberian War (531 AD)
The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 19 April 1539Agreement between Protestants and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
England and France sign an alliance against Spain in the treaty of Blois.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 19 April 1572Sovereign state in Europe before 1707