Pope Clement V, born Raymond Bertrand de Got ( also occasionally spelled de Guoth and de Goth ) ( c. 1264 – 20 April 1314 ) was Pope from 1305 to his death.

He inherited the crown of Navarre on the death of his mother, on 4 April 1305.

Jeanne of Navarre died on 2 April 1305, while the work was not yet completed.

# Beatrice ( 1295 – c. 1321 ), married April 1305 Azzo VIII d ' Este, marchese of Ferrara etc.

On 30 April 1305, he was slain along with 300 cavalry and 1, 000 infantry by the Alans, another group of mercenaries at the service of the Emperor.

Joan I ( also known as Jeanne I and Juana I ) ( 14 January 1273 – 31 March / 2 April 1305 ), the daughter of king Henry I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois, reigned as queen regnant of Navarre and also served as queen consort of France.

Resigning his office as chancellor in 1302, he was chosen Bishop of Chichester on 5 April 1305, consecrated bishop on 19 September 1305, and again became chancellor shortly after the accession of Edward II in 1307.

Legnica became famous for the Battle of Legnica ( or Battle of Wahlstatt ) that took place at Legnickie Pole near the city on 9 April 1241 during the Mongol invasion of Europe.

Innocent IV would also send other missions to the Mongols in 1245: the mission of André de Longjumeau, the possibly aborted mission of Laurent de Portugal, and the mission of Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, which left on 16 April 1245 and would reach the Mongol capital Karakorum.

* April 15 – Battle of Elbistan: Mamluk sultan Baibars invades the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm and defeats a Mongol army.

The Battle of Legnica (), also known as the Battle of Liegnitz () or Battle of Wahlstatt (), was a battle between the Mongol Empire and the combined defending forces of European fighters that took place at Legnickie Pole ( Wahlstatt ) near the city of Legnica in the Silesia province of the Kingdom of Poland on 9 April 1241.

In April, the Mongol Court decided to crush the rebels.

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.

The Armenians again joined forces with a sizable number of Mongol troops, 80, 000, on a Syrian offensive, but they were defeated at Homs on March 30, 1303, and at the decisive Battle of Shaqhab ( Merj-us-Safer ), south of Damas, on April 21, 1303.

He was in the last post at the time of the great Mongol invasion of eastern Europe and of the disastrous Battle of Legnica ( 9 April 1241 ), which threatened to cast European Christendom under the leadership of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Ögedei Khan.

The Battle of Mohi – marking the beginning of the Mongol invasion which had a disastrous effect on Hungary – took place in Borsod county, near the village of Muhi, on April 11, 1241.

Only one day after the smaller Mongol army in Poland had won the Battle of Legnica, Subutai launched his attack, thus beginning the Battle of Mohi during the night of April 10, 1241.

On April, 20, Al-Nasir Muhammed and the Caliph arrived in Syria from Egypt and while the Emirs were greeting them, news reached them that a Mongol army of 50. 000 soldiers led by Qutlugh-Shah, the deputy of Ghazan, was approaching.

He joined the Dallas-based promotion on April 15, 1983, wrestling twice that night: defeating Roberto Renesto on the card's opening match and The Mongol by disqualification later in the card.

The Battle of Mohi ( Muhi ) or Battle of the Sajó River ( April 11, 1241 ) was the main battle between the Mongol Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary during the Mongol invasion of Europe.

An attempt was made to hold off the main Mongol army at the Danube, which was mostly successful, from April 1241 until January 1242.

From 1882 until his capture, Samori Ture, ruler of the Wassoulou Empire, fought the French colonial army, defeating them on several occasions, including a notable victory at Woyowayanko ( 2 April 1882 ), in the face of French heavy artillery.

Lorenzo de ' Medici ( 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492 ) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.

His pontificate lasted only from 18 April to 17 August, after which, in consequence of disturbances within the Church which led to acts of violence, he was banished by the emperor Maxentius, who had been the ruler of Rome since 306, and had at first shown himself friendly to the Christians.

Rhys ap Gruffydd or ap Gruffudd ( Anglicised to " Griffith ") ( 1132 – 28 April 1197 ) was the ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth in south Wales.

* April 9 – Lorenzo de ' Medici, ruler of Florence ( b. 1449 )

* April 15 – The Castellemmarese War ends with the assassination of Joe " The Boss " Masseria, briefly leaving Salvatore Maranzano as capo di tutti i capi (" boss of all bosses ") and undisputed ruler of the American Mafia.

* April 29 – Pope Pius IX publishes an allocution announcing his refusal to support Piedmont-Sardinia in its war with Austria and dispelling hopes that he might serve as ruler of a pan-Italian republic.

* April 29-30 – In Lesotho, a bloodless coup ousts military ruler Justin Lekhanya.

* April – Balša III succeeds his father Đurađ II as ruler of the Principality of Zeta ( now the Republic of Montenegro ).

* April 23 – Nur ad-Din Zangi gains control of Damascus, uniting Syria under one ruler.

* April 7 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma ( b. 1576 )

* April 16 – Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian ruler ( b. 1050 )

* April 28 – Rhys ap Gruffydd, Welsh ruler ( b. 1132 )

* April 25 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England ( d. 1330 )

Llywelyn the Great (, ), full name Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, ( c. 117211 April 1240 ) was a Prince of Gwynedd in north Wales and eventually de facto ruler over most of Wales.

That Charles was not a popular ruler became apparent in April 1827, when chaos ensued during the King's review of the National Guard.

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873 ) was the first President of the French Republic and, as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire.

* On April 26, 1478, after the failure of the " Pazzi conspiracy " to murder the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de ' Medici, Jacopo de ' Pazzi was defenestrated.

* Contemporary charters in Latin used a number of additional styles for the Danish king Cnut ( Canute the Great, with Norway as his third realm ; 23 April 1016-12 November 1035 in Britain ) having rex Anglorum in the core plus various other titles, including rex Anglorum totiusque Brittannice orbis gubernator et rector i. e. ' king of the Angli and of all Britain governor and rector ' ( the last two in the generic sense ' ruler ')

– 2 April 1118, was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, who became the first Count of Edessa and then the second ruler and first titled King of Jerusalem.

Mysore's titular ruler Krishnaraja died in April 1766, while Hyder was in Malabar.

On April 27, 630, he killed Ardashir III of Persia ( 628 – 630 ) and became the twenty-fifth ruler of the Sassanian Empire.

Zog I, Skanderbeg III of the Albanians (, ; 8 October 18959 April 1961 ), born Ahmet Muhtar Bej Zogolli, was the ruler of Albania from 1925 to 1939, first as President ( 1925-1928 ) and as King ( 1928-1939 ).

As rapporteur of the diplomatic committee, in which he supported the policy of Jacques Pierre Brissot, he proposed two of the most revolutionary measures passed by the Assembly: the decree of accusation against the King Louis XVI's brothers ( the Comte de Provence and the Comte d ' Artois ) on 1 January 1792, and the declaration of war against the Habsburg ruler Francis II ( 20 April 1792 ).