16th April to 22nd April

16th April
73      Romans breach walls of Masada but find the occupants had committed suicide
1746   Battle of Culloden, British defeat Jacobite forces under Bonnie Prince Charlie
1799   Battle of Mount Tabor, Napoleon saves French force and defeats Ottomans

17th April
1555   Siena falls to Florentine Army after 18 month siege
1864   Battle of Plymouth,  Confederate troops attack Union garrison, North Carolina
1961    Cuban exiles with US backing launch Bay of Pigs Invasion

18th April
1797   Battle of Neuwied, French forces defeat Austrian army
1942   US B-25s launched from USS Hornet bomb Japan on Doolittle Raid
1943   US P-38s ambush Admiral Yamamoto's plane, killing the Japanese leader

19th April
1587   Sir Francis Drake sinks Spanish fleet in Cadiz
1775   Battle of Lexington, first battle in American War of Independence
1864   Battle of Plymouth, the ironclad ram CSS Albermarle sinks USS Southfield

20th April
1861   General Robert E Lee resigns from US Army to lead Virginian State forces
1864   Battle of Plymouth, Union forces surrender
1889   Adolf Hitler born in Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria
1918   The Red Baron scores his 79th and 80th victories
1982   British Victor tanker completes long range reconnaissance of South Georgia

21st April 
1836   Battle of San Jacinto, Texan forces rout Mexican army
1918   The Red Baron killed, probably by ground fire
1961   Last Cuban exiles surrender to Castro's forces

22nd April
1836   Mexican President Santa Anna captured by Texans
1982   SAS troops land on Fortune Glacier, South Georgia