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On April 11, 491: Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

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Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors who never attained the status of sole or senior ruler, as well as of the various usurpers or rebels who claimed the imperial title.

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Born on April 11

Arabella Stanton 2014– English actress (born 2014)
Jack Hinshelwood 2005– English footballer
Danielle Marsh 2005– Australian and South Korean singer (born 2005)
Jake Fraser-McGurk 2002– Australian cricketer (born 2002)
Manuel Ugarte 2001– Uruguayan footballer (born 2001)
Calen Addison 2000– Canadian ice hockey player (born 2000)
Milly Alcock 2000– Australian actress (born 2000)
Loïc Badé 2000– French footballer (born 2000)
Ken Carson 2000– American rapper (born 2000)
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Karina 2000– South Korean singer and rapper (born 2000)
Dele Alli 1996– English footballer (born 1996)
Summer Walker 1996– American singer (born 1996)
Brandon Montour 1994– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Florin Andone 1993– Romanian footballer (born 1993)
Sinem Dybvad Demir 1992– Danish politician (born 1992)
Thiago Alcântara 1991– Spain international footballer (born 1991)
Cédric Bakambu 1991– Footballer (born 1991)
Brennan Poole 1991– American racing driver (born 1991)

People

Died on April 11

Phil Garner American baseball player and manager (1949–2026)
Mike Berry British singer (1942–2025)
Park Bo-ram South Korean singer (1994–2024)
Mauro Viale Argentine journalist (1947–2021)
John Horton Conway English mathematician (1937–2020)
J. Geils American guitarist (1946–2017)
Mark Wainberg Canadian AIDS researcher
Jimmy Gunn American football player (1948–2015)
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman Bangladeshi politician and journalist (1952–2015)
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François Maspero French author and journalist
Hanut Singh Indian Army officer (1933–2015)
Tekena Tamuno Nigerian academic (1932–2015)
Rolf Brem Swiss sculptor and illustrator (born 1926)
Edna Doré British actress
Bill Henry American baseball player (1927–2014)
Lou Hudson American basketball player (1944–2014)
Myer S. Kripke American rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist
Sergey Nepobedimy Russian engineer (1921–2014)

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  1. 491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

    The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors who never attained the status of sole or senior ruler, as well as of the various usurpers or rebels who claimed the imperial title.

  2. 672 Consecration of Pope Adeodatus II following the death of Pope Vitalian.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 672 to 676

    Pope Adeodatus II, sometimes called Deodatus, was the bishop of Rome from 672 to his death on 17 June 676. He devoted much of his papacy to improving churches and fighting monothelitism.

  3. 1241 Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.

    Founder and first Khan of the Golden Horde (r. 1227–1255)

    Batu Khan was a Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde, a constituent of the Mongol Empire established after Genghis Khan's demise. Batu was a son of Jochi, thus a grandson of Genghis Khan. His ulus ruled over the Kievan Rus', Volga Bulgaria, Cumania, and the Caucasus for around 250 years.

  4. 1512 War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces.

    Fourth & Fifth phase of the Italian Wars (1508–1516)

    The War of the League of Cambrai, also known by its second stage as the War of the Holy League, was fought from December 1508 to December 1516, as part of the wider Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants of the war, who fought for its entire duration, were France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice; they were joined at various times by nearly every significant power in Western Europe, including Spain, England, the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence, the Duchy of Ferrara, and the Swiss.

  5. 1544 Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory.

    Ninth phase of the Italian Wars

    The Italian War of 1542–1546 was a conflict late in the Italian Wars, pitting Francis I of France and Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Henry VIII of England. The course of the war saw extensive fighting in Italy, France, and the Low Countries, as well as attempted invasions of Spain and England. The conflict was inconclusive and ruinously expensive for the major participants.

  6. 1689 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain on the same day that the Scottish Parliament concurs with the English decision of 12 February.
  7. 1713 France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht, bringing an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War). Britain accepts Philip V as King of Spain, while Philip renounces any claim to the French throne.
  8. 1727 Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany).
  9. 1809 Battle of the Basque Roads: Admiral Lord Gambier fails to support Captain Lord Cochrane, leading to an incomplete British victory over the French fleet.
  10. 1814 The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
  11. 1856 Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
  12. 1868 Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
  13. 1876 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
  14. 1881 Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia, as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  15. 1885 Luton Town F.C. is founded.
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  1. 1908 SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
  2. 1909 The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  3. 1921 Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  4. 1935 Stresa Front: Opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
  5. 1945 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
  6. 1951 Korean War: President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
  7. 1951 The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
  8. 1952 Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.
  9. 1952 Pan Am Flight 526A ditches near San Juan-Isla Grande Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after experiencing an engine failure, killing 52 people.
  10. 1955 The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
  11. 1957 United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
  12. 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
  13. 1963 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
  14. 1964 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
  15. 1965 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.

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