The Munich Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria.📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 23 April 1516Rules for manufacturing German beer
World War II: Adolf Hitler’s designated successor📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 23 April 1945Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 22 April 1945Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany
Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 21 April 1809Town in Bavaria, Germany
World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 21 April 19451939–1945 global conflict
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
Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 20 April 1945Series of human experiments in Nazi Germany
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
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
An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 19 April 1809Polish state (1807–1815)
World War II: In German-occupied Poland📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 19 April 1943Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II
The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 19 April 1999Federal parliament of Germany
Italian resistance movement: In Turin📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 18 April 1945Italian combatant organizations opposed to Nazi-Fascism
The Operation Big Bang📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 18 April 19471947 destruction of bunkers on Heligoland
In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 18 April 1988Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (1920–2012)
World War II: The Axis powers invasion of Yugoslavia is completed when it signs an armistice with Germany and Italy.📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 17 April 19411939–1945 global conflict