April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of the year.
[edit] Events
- 43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
- 69 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
- 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
- 966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
- 1028 – Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
- 1205 – Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
- 1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
- 1341 – Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
- 1434 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
- 1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
- 1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Year's War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
- 1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
- 1715 – The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina.
- 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
- 1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
- 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
- 1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
- 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
- 1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
- 1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
- 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- 1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
- 1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- 1906 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- 1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
- 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
- 1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1931 – Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
- 1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
- 1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
- 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
- 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
- 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.
- 1941 – World War II: Rommel attacks Tobruk.
- 1942 – Malta received the George Cross for its gallantry. The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
- 1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
- 1945 – Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
- 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
- 1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
- 1969 – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
- 1978 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
- 1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
- 1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
- 1986 – 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
- 1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
- 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
- 1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
- 1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
- 1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
- 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
- 2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
- 2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
- 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
- 2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
- 2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
[edit] Births
- 1126 – Averroes Arab Spanish physician, philosopher and polymath (d. 1198)
- 1336 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
- 1572 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
- 1578 – Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
- 1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician (d. 1695)
- 1668 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general (d. 1741)
- 1709 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter (d. 1783)
- 1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
- 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
- 1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
- 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman (d. 1854)
- 1788 – David G. Burnet, American politician, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
- 1800 – John Appold, British fur dyer and engineer (d. 1865)
- 1814 – Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer (d. 1887)
- 1818 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1909)
- 1827 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
- 1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944)
- 1866 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher, instructor and companion of Helen Keller (d. 1936)
- 1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (d. 1940)
- 1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
- 1870 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1929)
- 1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
- 1881 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian writer (d. 1948)
- 1882 – Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, (d. 1936)
- 1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)
- 1886 – Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet (d. 1928)
- 1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian (d. 1975)
- 1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist, maker of Indian Constitution (d. 1956)
- 1892 – Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist (d. 1957)
- 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
- 1902 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian hockey player (d. 1974)
- 1903 – Henry Corbin, French philosopher and iranologist (d. 1978)
- 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
- 1907 – François Duvalier, Haitian dictator (d. 1971)
- 1912 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
- 1916 – Don Willesee, Australian politician (d. 2003)
- 1917 – Marvin Miller, American labor activist
- 1917 – Valerie Hobson, British actress (d. 1998)
- 1918 – Mary Healy, American actress
- 1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1923 – Roberto DeVicenzo, Argentine golfer
- 1924 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician and arranger (d. 1994)
- 1925 – Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
- 1925 – Abel Muzorewa, African politician, Prime Minister of Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech writer, director, and teacher (d. 1996)
- 1926 – Liz Renay, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Dany Robin, French actress (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian-Israeli writer (d. 2006)
- 1929 – Gerry Anderson, English publisher, producer, director, and writer
- 1930 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Bradford Dillman, American actor
- 1931 – Paul Masnick, Canadian hockey player
- 1932 – Bob Grant, English actor (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter, author, and philanthropist
- 1933 – Boris Kolar, Croatian animator
- 1933 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian author
- 1934 – Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist
- 1935 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
- 1936 – Bobby Nichols, American golfer
- 1936 – Frank Serpico, American policeman
- 1941 – Julie Christie, British actress
- 1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player
- 1942 – Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut
- 1942 – Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician
- 1944 – John Sergeant, British journalist
- 1945 – Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist and songwriter (The Outlaws, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Blackmore's Night)
- 1945 – Roger Frappier, Canadian producer, director, actor, and editor
- 1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
- 1946 – Mireille Guiliano, French-American author
- 1948 – Berry Berenson, American photographer, actress, and model (d. 2001)
- 1948 – Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician
- 1949 – DeAnne Julius, American-English economist
- 1949 – Chris Langham, British actor, writer, producer, director
- 1949 – John Shea, American actor
- 1950 – Francis Collins, American physician-geneticist
- 1950 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer
- 1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
- 1951 – José Eduardo González Navas, Spanish politician
- 1952 – Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish footballer and manager
- 1953 – David Buss, Evolutionary psychologist
- 1954 – Bruce Sterling, American author
- 1957 – Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
- 1957 – Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
- 1957 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor, and composer
- 1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director
- 1958 – John D'Aquino, American actor
- 1960 – Brad Garrett, American actor
- 1961 – Robert Carlyle, British actor
- 1961 – Daniel Clowes, American cartoonist and screenwriter
- 1962 – Scott Boman, American politician
- 1962 – Guillaume LeBlanc, Canadian athlete
- 1964 – Greg Battle, Canadian football player
- 1964 – Gina McKee, British actress
- 1965 – Tom Dey, American director
- 1965 – Alexandre Jardin, French novelist
- 1965 – Kirk Windstein, English-American singer and guitarist (Crowbar, Down, Valume Nob, and Kingdom of Sorrow)
- 1966 – André Boisclair, Canadian politician
- 1966 – David Justice, American baseball player
- 1966 – Greg Maddux, American baseball player
- 1967 – Barrett Martin, American musician, producer, and composer (Mad Season, Screaming Trees, Skin Yard, and Tuatara)
- 1967 – Nicola Berti, Italian footballer
- 1967 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian hockey player (d. 1999)
- 1967 – Alain Côté, French-Canadian hockey player
- 1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
- 1969 – Brad Ausmus, American baseball player
- 1969 – Martyn LeNoble, Dutch bassist (Porno for Pyros)
- 1969 – Mark Macon, American basketball player
- 1969 – Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist
- 1970 – Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer and actor
- 1970 – Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer and actress (Onyanko Club)
- 1970 – Steve Avery, American baseball player
- 1971 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer
- 1971 – Carlos Pérez, Dominican baseball player
- 1971 – Gregg Zaun, American baseball player
- 1972 – Paul Devlin, England-Scottish footballer
- 1972 – Roberto Mejia, Dominican baseball player
- 1973 – Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
- 1973 – Adrien Brody, American actor
- 1973 – David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
- 1974 – Da Brat, American rapper and actress
- 1975 – Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 – Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress
- 1975 – Amy Dumas, American wrestler
- 1975 – Avner Dorman, Israeli composer
- 1975 – Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
- 1975 – Rajeshwari Sachdev, Indian actress
- 1975 – Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1976 – Christian Älvestam, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (Scar Symmetry, Miseration, and Solution .45)
- 1976 – Georgina Chapman, English fashion designer
- 1976 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player
- 1976 – Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
- 1976 – Jason Wiemer, Canadian hockey player
- 1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
- 1977 – Chandra Levy, American intern and murder victim (d. 2001)
- 1977 – Rob McElhenney, American actor
- 1978 – Paul O'Brien, Australian actor
- 1979 – Rebecca DiPietro, American model
- 1979 – Marios Elia, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1979 – Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player
- 1979 – Noé Pamarot, French footballer
- 1980 – Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (Arcade Fire)
- 1980 – Claire Coffee, American actress
- 1980 – Kieran Mahon, English musician (The Cooper Temple Clause)
- 1981 – Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player
- 1981 – Amy Leach, British director
- 1982 – Mahii Vij, Indian actress
- 1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer
- 1983 – William Obeng, Ghanaian-American football player
- 1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
- 1984 – Blake Costanzo, American football player
- 1984 – Charles Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
- 1984 – Adán Sánchez, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1984 – Tyler Thigpen, American football player
- 1985 – Grant Clitsome, Canadian hockey Player
- 1986 – Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
- 1986 – Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
- 1986 – Todd Gilles, American ice dancer
- 1987 – Michael Baze, American horse racing jockey (d. 2011)
- 1987 – Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
- 1987 – Korina Perkovic, German tennis player
- 1988 – Vasileios Pliatsikas, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Hannah Steffenburg, Swedish singer (Bubbles)
- 1989 – Joe Haden, American football player
- 1989 – Dafina Zeqiri, Kosovan-Swedish singer and dancer
- 1990 – Christian Alexander, American actor
- 1990 – Markus Smarzoch, German footballer
- 1992 – Frederik Sørensen, Danish footballer
- 1993 – Vivien Cardone, American actress
- 1993 – Graham Phillips, American actor and singer
- 1994 – Skyler Samuels, American actress
- 1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
- 1998 – Brandon Ratcliff, American actor
[edit] Deaths
- 1132 – Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
- 1279 – Bolesław the Pious
- 1322 – Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
- 1345 – Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
- 1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (b. 1428)
- 1574 – Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (b. 1538)
- 1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots
- 1599 – Henry Wallop, English statesman
- 1662 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
- 1682 – Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621)
- 1716 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
- 1721 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
- 1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
- 1785 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
- 1792 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (b. 1720)
- 1864 – Charles Lot Church, Canadian politician (b. 1777)
- 1910 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
- 1911 – Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
- 1912 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
- 1914 – Hubert Bland, English socialist, co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
- 1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
- 1925 – John Singer Sargent, American artist (b. 1856)
- 1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
- 1935 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
- 1941 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
- 1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, Soviet soldier, the oldest child of Joseph Stalin (b. 1907)
- 1950 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
- 1963 – Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, (b. 1893)
- 1964 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
- 1964 – Rachel Carson, American author and environmentalist (b. 1907)
- 1965 – Richard Hickock, American murderer (b. 1933)
- 1965 – Perry Smith, American murderer (b. 1928)
- 1968 – Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 1975 – Günther Dyhrenfurth, Swiss mountaineer, geologist and Himalayan explorer (b. 1886)
- 1975 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
- 1976 – José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
- 1978 – Joe Gordon, American baseball player (b. 1915)
- 1983 – Gianni Rodari, Italian writer and journalist (b. 1920)
- 1983 – Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
- 1984 – Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
- 1985 – Noele Gordon, English actress (b. 1919
- 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
- 1990 – Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician (b. 1927)
- 1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
- 1995 – Burl Ives, American actor, writer, and singer (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Gerda Christian, German secretary (b. 1913)
- 1999 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Anthony Newley, English actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1931)
- 2000 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
- 2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-creator of zip file format (b. 1962)
- 2000 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
- 2001 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
- 2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament (b. 1941)
- 2004 – Micheline Charest, French-Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
- 2006 – Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
- 2007 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Don Ho, American singer and musician (b. 1930)
- 2007 – René Rémond, French historian and political economist (b. 1918)
- 2008 – Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor and comedian. (b. 1957)
- 2008 – Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 2008 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912)
- 2009 – Maurice Druon, French novelist (b. 1918)
- 2010 – Alice Miller, Polish-born psychologist and author (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Peter Steele, American singer, bassist, and composer (Type O Negative, Carnivore, and Fallout) (b. 1962)
- 2010 – Israr Ahmed, Pakistani-Islamic theologian (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Trevor Bannister, English actor (b. 1934)
- 2011 – Walter Breuning, American super-centenarian (b. 1896)
- 2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Emile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player (b.1919)
- 2012 – Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (b. 1986)
- 2012 – Martin Poll, American movie producer (b. 1922)
[edit] Holidays and observances
- Ambedkar Jayanti (India)
- Black Day (South Korea)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Dhivehi Language Day (Maldives)
- Day of the Georgian language (Georgia)
- Day of Mologa (Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia)
- N'Ko Alphabet Day (Mande speakers)
- New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal equinox:
- Assamese New Year, or Rongali Bihu (India's Assam Valley)
- Bengali New Year, or Pohela Boishakh (Bangladesh and India's West Bengal state)
- Burmese New Year, or Thingyan (Burma)
- Sikh New Year, or Vaisakhi (Punjab region)
- Khmer New Year, or Chol Chnam Thmey, most commonly celebrated on April 13 (Cambodia)
- Lao New Year, or Songkan / Pi Mai Lao, generally celebrated from 13 to 15 April (Laos)
- Maithili New Year, Jude-Sheetal in Mithila and Nepal
- Malayali New Year, or Vishu (India's Kerala state)
- Maldivian New Year, (Maldives)
- Nepali New Year, or Bikram Samwat / Vaishak Ek (Nepal)
- Oriya New Year, or Maha Visuba Sankranthi (India's Orissa state)
- Sinhalese New Year, or Aluth Avurudhu (Sri Lanka)
- Tamil New Year, or Puthandu (India's Tamil Nadu state, Sri Lanka)
- Thai New Year, or Songkran, celebrated from 13 to 15 April (Thailand)
- Tuluva New Year, or Bisu (India's Karnataka state)
- The first day of Takayama Spring Festival (Takayama, Gifu, Japan)
- Youth Day (Angola)
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