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 — a crusade against Islam storms and pillages the greatest Christian city on earth. Relics and the bronze horses of San Marco are carried to Venice; Byzantium is fatally maimed. 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 — and the Supreme Court lets the killers go. Reconstruction was not lost; it was killed. Remember Colfax when you read Chapter 12.
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— Jallianwala Bagh massacre
13 Apr 1919 — In a walled garden in Amritsar, Brigadier Dyer’s fifty rifles fire 1,650 rounds into an unarmed Baisakhi crowd until ammunition runs low. 379 dead by official count; Indian estimates near a thousand. The Raj’s claim to rule by consent dies here. Remember them.
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