WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. APRIL
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Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul. (7. April 451)

First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. (7. April 529)

Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico. (7. April 611)

Empress Matilda, became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English' (7. April 1141)

Charles University is founded in Prague. (7. April 1348)

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu. (7. April 1521)

Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies. (7. April 1541)

Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. (7. April 1724)

End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767) (7. April 1767)

Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward. (7. April 1776)

American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country. (7. April 1788)

The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812. (7. April 1798)

Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River. (7. April 1805)

John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year. (7. April 1827)

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe. (7. April 1829)

D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV. (7. April 1831)

American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee. (7. April 1862)

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician. (7. April 1868)

Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal. (7. April 1890)

Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. (7. April 1906)