Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 8

April 8: Hanamatsuri in Japan.

• 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla (bust pictured) was assassinated at a roadside near Harran.

• 1093 – Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire, one of the largest cathedrals in England, was dedicated by Bishop Walkelin.

• 1341 – Italian scholar and poet Petrarch took the title poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome.

• 1886 – British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

• 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the entente cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.

• 1904 – British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, a Holy Book in Thelema.

• 1929 – Indian independence movement: Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh with the help of Batukeshwar Dutt bombed the Central Assembly in Delhi.

More anniversaries:

• April 7
• April 8
• April 9