On April 28, 1253, he expounded Nam ( u )- Myōhō-Renge-Kyō for the first time, marking his Sho Tempōrin ( 初転法輪: " first turning the wheel of the Law ").

The mantra he expounded on 28 April 1253, known as the Daimoku or Odaimoku, Nam ( u )- Myōhō-Renge-Kyō, expresses his devotion to that body of teachings.

( The Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus ), Nichiren added to the title the word Namu ( devotion to ), and declared on 28 April 1253, the chanting of the phrase Nam ( u ) Myoho Renge Kyo as his basic practice for revealing one ’ s Buddha nature in daily life.

* 1253 – April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, essentially founding the branch of Buddhism now known as Nichiren Buddhism.

The oldest written text mentioning the name is dated 4 April 1253.

" Nichiren " is a name he chose for himself when he embarked on spreading his teaching on April 28, 1253.

The first Mongol attack on the Ismailis came in April 1253 AD, when many of the Quhistani fortresses were lost to the Christian Mongol general Ket-Buqa.

Bolesław the Pious () ( 1224 / 27 – 14 April 1279 ) was a Duke of Greater Poland during 1239 – 1247 ( according to some historians during 1239 – 1241 sole Duke of Ujście ), Duke of Kalisz during 1247 – 1249, Duke of Gniezno during 1249 – 1250, Duke of Gniezno-Kalisz during 1253 – 1257, Duke of whole Greater Poland and Poznań during 1257 – 1273, in 1261 ruler over Ląd, regent of the Duchies of Masovia, Płock and Czersk during 1262 – 1264, ruler over Bydgoszcz during 1268 – 1273, Duke of Inowrocław during 1271 – 1273, and Duke of Gniezno-Kalisz since 1273 until his death.

The conflict certainly wasn't trivial, since Bolesław regained its freedom only on 20 April 1253, thanks to the pressures of the powerful Greater Poland clergy.

Richard of Chichester ( also known as Richard de Wych or variations thereof ) ( Droitwich, 1197 – 3 April 1253 in Dover ) is a saint ( canonized 1262 ) who was Bishop of Chichester.

After dedicating St Edmund's Chapel at Dover, he died at the Maison Dieu there at midnight on 3 April 1253, where he had been ordered by the Pope to preach a crusade.

The Anthem came to existence in 1253, along with the canonization of saint Stanisław Szczepanowski ( September 8 in Assisi ), who died a martyrs death on April 11, 1079.

Records first mention Waldenburg in the year 1253, but the town was destroyed in April 1945, at the end of World War II, and it has been rebuilt since.

* Gertrude, Duchess of Austria ( b c 1223-d. c 1288 or d. 24 April 1299 ), m. 27 June 1252 ( div 1253 )

1253 / 57 – d. 25 April 1286 ).

Secretary of State Seward negotiated the treaty for the purchase of Alaska from Russia on April 9, 1867 for $ 7. 2 million.

Since 3 May 1814, the Sovereign Principality of Elba was created a miniature non-hereditary Monarchy under the exiled French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon I was allowed, by the treaty of Fontainebleau with ( 27 April ), to enjoy, for life, the imperial title.

* Cushman, John H. " Industrial group plans to battle climate treaty ", The New York Times, April 26, 1998.

With the initial peace treaty articles ratified in April, a recently formed Congressional committee under Hamilton, was considering needs and plans for a peacetime army.

On 17 April 1934, French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou issued the so-called " Barthou note " which led to concerns on the part of Hitler that the French would ask for sanctions against Germany for violating Part V of the Versailles treaty.

Lithuania concluded the treaty of friendship with Poland in April 1994.

In April, Sigismund was brought to Hungary by his brother Wenceslaus and the queens were compelled to accept him as Mary's co-ruler by a treaty signed in Győr.

# Decides that in adjudicating the dispute brought before it by the Application filed by the Republic of Nicaragua on 9 April 1984, the Court is required to apply the " multilateral treaty reservation " contained in proviso ( c ) to the declaration of acceptance of jurisdiction made under Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court by the Government of the United States of America deposited on 26 August 1946 ;

After reopening on 23 April, and following more protests by the Turks and tense debates, the treaty was signed on 24 July as a result of eight months of arduous negotiation.

The treaty was adopted on April 18, 1961, by the United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities held in Vienna, Austria, and first implemented on April 24, 1964.

* April 26 – Regional security treaty signed by the “ Shanghai Five ”.

April 17: Treaty of Shimonoseki | Shimonoseki treaty: Qing Dynasty | Qing China renounces claim on Korea.

* April 16 – Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that had not existed for a long time.

* April 1 – The Plymouth, Massachusetts colonists create the first treaty with native Americans.

* April 14 – Charlemagne spends Easter in Treviso after putting down a revolt by Friuli and Spoleto, removing Hrodgaud, the Duke of Friuli, from power, and signing a treaty with Hildeprand, the Duke of Spoleto.

* April 11 – Anglo-Swedish alliance: A commercial treaty between England and Sweden is signed.

* March – The peace treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377.

Tyler appointed John C. Calhoun Secretary of State as Upshur's replacement, and Calhoun completed the treaty ; it was presented to the Senate on April 22.

In April 1805, the United Kingdom and Russia signed a treaty with the aim of removing the French from the Batavian Republic ( roughly present-day Netherlands ) and the Swiss Confederation ( Switzerland ).

On 14 April the Afghan and Pakistani governments signed the 1988 Geneva Accords, and the Soviet Union and the United States signed as guarantors ; the treaty specifically stated that the Soviet military had to withdraw from Afghanistan by 15 February 1989.

On April 27, 2010, Russia and Ukraine ratified the Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas treaty, extending the Russian Navy's lease of the Sevastopol base for 25 years after 2017 ( through 2042 ) with an option to prolong the lease for another 5 years ( through 2047 ).

This treaty, designed to ensure an " unbroken curtain of water " is flowing over the falls, states that during daylight time during the tourist season ( April 1st to October 31st ) there must be 100, 000 cubic feet per second ( 2, 800 m3 / s ) of water flowing over the falls, and during the night and off-tourist season there must be 50, 000 cubic feet per second ( 1, 400 m3 / s ) of water flowing over the falls.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

The seasonal adjustment takes into account such factors as Easter was on April 2 this year, two weeks earlier than in 1960, and pre-Easter buying was pushed into March.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

It was a Saturday evening in April with a mist-like rain, and I was a little high on the good taste of life.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

On April 9, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and the war was effectively over.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.