MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · April 13
THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 13
April 13 in history
1204 — The 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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1873 — Colfax
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 11.
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