Editing April 13 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1612]] &ndash; Samurai [[Miyamoto Musashi]] defeats [[Sasaki Kojirō]] in a duel at [[Ganryū-jima|Funajima island]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Tokitsu|first=Kenji|title=Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings|location=Boston|publisher=Shambhala|date=2004|isbn=9781590300459|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IZMIiyYmIVcC|page=74}}</ref>
*[[1613]] &ndash; [[Samuel Argall]], having captured [[Pocahontas]] in [[Passapatanzy, Virginia]], sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by [[Powhatan (Native American leader)|her father]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Ward Dean|author2=George Folsom|author3=John Gilmary Shea|title=Historical Magazine: And Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalmagaz04stilgoog|year=1860|publisher=Henry B. Dawson|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicalmagaz04stilgoog/page/n295 289]}}</ref>
*[[1699]] &ndash; The [[Sikh]] religion is formalised as the [[Khalsa]] &ndash; the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints{{snd}}by [[Guru Gobind Singh]] in northern India, in accordance with the [[Nanakshahi calendar]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mahmood |first=Cynthia Keppley |title=Fighting for faith and nation dialogues with Sikh militants |url=https://archive.org/details/fightingforfaith00cynt |url-access=limited |year=1996 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=978-0812215922 |oclc=44966032 |pages=43–45}}</ref>
*[[1742]] &ndash; [[George Frideric Handel]]'s [[oratorio]] ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]'' makes its world premiere in [[Dublin]], Ireland.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lang|first=Paul Henry|title=George Frideric Handel|location=New York|publisher=Dover Publications|date=1996|isbn=9780486292274|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9aK8AQAAQBAJ|page=340}}</ref>
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the [[Battle of Bound Brook]], [[New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Brandus|first=Paul|title=This Day in U.S. Military History|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Bernan Press|date=2020|isbn=9781641433853|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8vADwAAQBAJ|page=100}}</ref>
*[[1829]] &ndash; The [[Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829]] gives [[Roman Catholicism in the United Kingdom|Roman Catholics]] in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.<ref>{{cite book|last=McCarthy|first=Michael F.J.|title=Church and State in England and Wales, 1829-1906|location=Dublin|publisher=Hodges, Figgis & Co.|date=1906|oclc=806201062|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NN4-AAAAIAAJ|page=23}}</ref>
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Lajos Kossuth]] presents the [[Hungarian Declaration of Independence]] in a closed session of the National Assembly.<ref>{{cite book|last=Troubetzkoy|first=Alexis S.|title=The Road to Balaklava: Stumbling Into War With Russia|location=Toronto|publisher=Trafalgar Press|date=1986|isbn=9780969241706|page=59}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Union forces surrender [[Fort Sumter]] to Confederate forces.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hearn|first=Chester G.|title=Lincoln and McClellan at War|location=Baton Rouge|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|date=2013|isbn=9780807145524|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K47TC2-690UC|page=14}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; American Civil War: [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] is occupied by Union forces.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pierpaoli| first=Paul G. Jr. |chapter=Raleigh, North Carolina|title=American Civil War: A State-By-State Encyclopedia. Volume 2: New Jersey-Wisconsin|editor-last1=Tucker|editor-first1=Spencer C.|editor-last2=Pierpaoli|editor-first2=Paul G. Jr. |location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2015|isbn=9781598845280|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HhjYBgAAQBAJ|page=561}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; The New York City [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] is founded.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Baetjer|first1=Katharine|last2=Mertens|first2=Joan R.|chapter=The Founding Decades|title=Making the Met, 1870-2020|editor-last1=Bayer|editor-first1=Andrea|editor-last2=Corey|editor-first2=Laura D.|location=New York|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=2020|isbn=9781588397096|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJ7YDwAAQBAJ|page=35}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; The [[Colfax massacre]]: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in [[Colfax, Louisiana]], while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the [[Ku Klux Klan]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lane|first=Charles|title=The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction|location=New York|publisher=Henry Holt and Co.|date=2008|isbn=9780805083422|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulexrXOMTsgC|pages=23–24}}</ref>