The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 0224Battle between Parthian and Sasanian dynasties in 224
Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 0357Roman emperor from 337 to 361
Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I)📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 1192Italian nobleman and crusader, King of Jerusalem from 1190 to 1192
Nichiren📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 1253Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher (1222–1282)
The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.📜 HISTORY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 15031503 battle in the Third Italian War
Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 1611Private university in Metro Manila, Philippines
A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.📜 HISTORY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 1625Colonial empire between 1492 and 1976
The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.📜 CITIES🌍 INDIA🗓️ 28 April 17581674–1818 empire in the Indian subcontinent
Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 28 April 1788U.S. state
Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 28 April 17891789 mutiny aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty
France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg)📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 28 April 1792Austrian territory (1714–1797)
The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III📜 WARS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 28 April 17961796 treaty between Sardinia and France
The sailing clipper ship Pomona wrecked on the coast of Ireland with the loss of 424 of the 448 passengers and crew aboard.📜 CITIES🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 1859Clipper ship (1856–1859)
Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 1869U.S. company that built western leg of the first transcontinental railroad
Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 28 April 1881American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)
A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 188719th and 20th-century political police in Prussia
Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 28 April 1910Pioneering French aviator