On This Day in History April 5, 2023

Historical Events 1242  Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice 1722  Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen is the first European to discover Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the southeastern Pacific 1818  Battle of Maipú: Chile's independence movement led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead 1847  Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton 1879  Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 Clas Thunberg 1893 - 1973 Colin Powell 1937 - 2021 Thomas Hobbes 1588 - 1679 More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 Howard Hughes 1905 - 1976 More Famous Deaths April 5: ‘I Do’ Says Pocahontas Pocahontas, the native American princess regarded by many as the mother of modern America, was married on this day, aged about nineteen, to an English settler Read the Article