TITLE

Months Past

AUTHOR(S)
Cavendish, Richard
PUB. DATE
April 2011
SOURCE
History Today;Apr2011, Vol. 61 Issue 4, p8
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article highlights several significant events which took place in the month of April in history including the victory by British Naval Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson over a Danish fleet on April 2, 1801, the canonization of St. Catherine of Siena on April 29, 1461, and the crowning of Egypt's King Farouk on April 28, 1936.
ACCESSION #
60082528

Tags: ANNIVERSARIES;  NELSON, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805;  FARUK I, King of Egypt, 1920-1965

 

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