THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 13
April 13 in history
What happened on April 13: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1204, 1873 and 1919, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Sack of Constantinople
12–13 Apr 1204 — an expedition launched against Islam storms and pillages Constantinople, the greatest Christian city on earth. Relics and the bronze horses of San Marco are carried to Venice, and Byzantium is fatally maimed. This is a site of memory.
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— Colfax massacre
13 Apr 1873 — A white paramilitary force murders between 60 and 150 Black men defending the Grant Parish courthouse. The Supreme Court lets the killers go. Colfax shows how violence destroyed Reconstruction; remember it when reading Chapter 12.
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— Jallianwala Bagh massacre
13 Apr 1919 — An unarmed Baisakhi crowd had gathered in a walled garden in Amritsar. Brigadier Dyer’s fifty rifles fired 1,650 rounds into it, stopping when ammunition ran low. The official count recorded 379 dead; Indian estimates were near a thousand. The Raj’s claim to rule by consent died here. Remember them.
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