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On April 28, 224: The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V, effectively ending the Parthian Empire.

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The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V, effectively ending the Parthian Empire.

The Battle of Hormozdgan was the climactic battle between the Arsacid and the Sasanian dynasties that took place on 28 April 224. The Sasanian victory broke the power of the Parthian dynasty, effectively ending almost five centuries of Parthian rule in Iran, and marking the official start of the Sasanian era.

People

Born on April 28

Anthony Volpe 2001– American baseball player (born 2001)
Victoria De Angelis 2000– Italian bassist (born 2000)
Alek Thomas 2000– American baseball player (born 2000)
Song Yu-bin 1998– South Korean singer (born 1998)
Shane McClanahan 1997– American baseball player (born 1997)
Denzel Ward 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Connor Clifton 1995– American ice hockey player (born 1995)
Melanie Martinez 1995– American singer-songwriter (born 1995)
Jakob Butturff 1994– American ten-pin bowler (born 1994)
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Wonpil 1994– South Korean musician (born 1994)
Matt Chapman 1993– American baseball player (born 1993)
Eva Samková 1993– Czech snowboarder (born 1993)
Blake Bortles 1992– American football player (born 1992)
DeMarcus Lawrence 1992– American football player (born 1992)
Emil Salomonsson 1989– Swedish footballer (born 1989)
Kim Sung-kyu 1989– South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
Jonathan Biabiany 1988– French footballer (born 1988)
Juan Mata 1988– Spanish footballer (born 1988)

People

Died on April 28

Brian McCardie Scottish actor and writer (1965–2024)
Michael Collins American astronaut (1930–2021)
El Risitas Spanish comedian and actor (1956–2021)
Richard Lugar American politician (1932–2019)
John Singleton American filmmaker (1968–2019)
James Hylton American racing driver (1934–2018)
Mariano Gagnon American missionary and author
Jenny Diski English writer
Antônio Abujamra Brazilian actor and director
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Marcia Brown American children's illustrator and writer (1918–2015)
Michael J. Ingelido United States Air Force general
Barbara Fiske Calhoun American cartoonist (1919–2014)
William Honan American journalist and author
Dennis Kamakahi Hawaiian musician (1953–2014)
Edgar Laprade Canadian ice hockey player (1919–2014)
Jack Ramsay American basketball coach and broadcaster (1925–2014)
Idris Sardi Indonesian violinist and composer (born 1938)
Frederic Schwartz American architect

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Every April 28 on record

  1. 224 The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V, effectively ending the Parthian Empire.

    Battle between Parthian and Sasanian dynasties in 224

    The Battle of Hormozdgan was the climactic battle between the Arsacid and the Sasanian dynasties that took place on 28 April 224. The Sasanian victory broke the power of the Parthian dynasty, effectively ending almost five centuries of Parthian rule in Iran, and marking the official start of the Sasanian era.

  2. 357 Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.

    Roman emperor from 337 to 361

    Constantius II was Roman emperor from 337 to 361. His reign saw constant warfare on the borders against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic peoples, while internally the Roman Empire went through repeated civil wars, court intrigues, and usurpations. His religious policies inflamed domestic conflicts that would continue after his death.

  3. 1192 Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.

    Italian nobleman and crusader, King of Jerusalem from 1190 to 1192

    Conrad of Montferrat was a nobleman, one of the major participants in the Third Crusade. He was the de facto King of Jerusalem by virtue of his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem from 24 November 1190, but officially elected only in 1192, days before his death. He was also the eighth Marquess of Montferrat from 1191.

  4. 1253 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.

    Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher and True Buddha(1222–1282)

    Nichiren was a Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher of the Kamakura period. His teachings form the basis of Nichiren Buddhism, a unique branch of Japanese Mahayana Buddhism based on the Lotus Sutra.

  5. 1294 Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols with the reigning title Oljeitu.

    Emperor of Yuan dynasty from 1294 to 1307

    Öljeyitü Khan, born Temür, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, was the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China, ruling from 10 May 1294 to 10 February 1307. Apart from being the Emperor of China, he is considered as the sixth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, although it was only nominal due to the division of the empire. He was an able ruler of the Yuan dynasty, and his reign established the patterns of power for the next few decades.

  6. 1503 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.
  7. 1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the Catholic University of the Philippines and the largest Catholic university in the world.
  8. 1625 A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
  9. 1738 Pope Clement XII issues the first papal condemnation of Freemasonry and formally prohibits Catholics from becoming Freemasons.
  10. 1758 The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
  11. 1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  12. 1789 The Mutiny on the Bounty occurs, with the ship's captain, Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors, set adrift, and the rebel crew setting sail for Tahiti. Eventually the majority of rebels sail for Pitcairn Island.
  13. 1792 France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
  14. 1794 Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.
  15. 1796 The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
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  1. 1858 The Bawani Imli massacre, where 52 Indian freedom fighters are hanged to death on a tamarind tree by British colonial forces.
  2. 1859 The sailing clipper ship Pomona is wrecked on the coast of Ireland with the loss of 424 of the 448 passengers and crew aboard.
  3. 1869 Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the first transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  4. 1881 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
  5. 1887 A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of Wilhelm I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
  6. 1910 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
  7. 1920 The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
  8. 1923 Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
  9. 1930 The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
  10. 1937 South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.
  11. 1941 The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
  12. 1944 World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
  13. 1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
  14. 1945 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
  15. 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

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