At the age of 52, playwright William Shakespeare<\/a> dies of an unknown cause. He is later buried in Stratford-upon-Avon.<\/p>\n Sweden, France and the Protestant princes of Germany formed the League of Heilbronn against the Catholic league in the Thirty years\u2019 War.<\/p>\n The coronation of Charles II<\/a> took place in Westminster Abbey. Samuel Pepys<\/a> recorded in his diary that despite having arrived seven hours early in order to secure a good spot from which to watch the proceedings, he found to his \u201cvery great grief\u201d that he was unable to see the ceremony, could hear little of the music due to the noise, and had to leave early in order to relieve himself. The day ended with a tremendous thunderstorm; contemporaries were divided over whether this was a good or bad omen.<\/p>\n German physicist Max Planck is born in Kiel. A close friend of Einstein and one of the founders of quantum theory, he will be awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of energy quanta.<\/p>\n Cardiff City FC beats Arsenal 1\u20130 to become the only non-English club to win the FA Cup.<\/p>\n The German Luftwaffe<\/a> bombed Exeter. It was the first of the so-called \u2018Baedeker raids\u2019 on English historic cities, organised in retaliation for the RAF\u2019s bombing of L\u00fcbeck.<\/p>\n New Zealand-born teacher Blair Peach suffers fatal head injuries as the police break up a demonstration against the National Front in Southall.<\/p>\n Browse more\u00a0On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Freya Parr Published: Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 12:00 am 23 April 1343 On St George\u2019s night, the Estonian people rise up against their Danish and German overlords, triggering a three-year war. The Danes eventually sell Estonia to the Teutonic Knights. 23 April 1430 Eight-year-old Henry VI crossed the Channel for his coronation as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13492,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/23-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/23-april-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/23-april-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/23-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/23-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/23-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/23-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Freya Parr Published: Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 12:00 am 23 April 1343 On St George\u2019s night, the Estonian people rise up against their Danish and German overlords, triggering a three-year war. The Danes eventually sell Estonia to the Teutonic Knights. 23 April 1430 Eight-year-old Henry VI crossed the Channel for his coronation as…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/13491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}23 April 1633<\/h3>\n
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