Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.

Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.

Knox arrived at the castle on 10 April 1547.

* April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet ( d. 1547 )

Catherine de ' Medici ( Italian: Caterina de ' Medici, 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589 ), daughter of Lorenzo II de ' Medici and of Madeleine de La Tour d ' Auvergne, was a Franco / Italian noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France.

If he hoped for such a marriage as a route to power, he was unsuccessful, though his secret marriage to Katherine Parr, Elizabeth's guardian, in late April 1547 was viewed by some as an attempt to become close to the young princess.

Vermigli ( Peter Martyr ) and Marcantonio Flaminio were leading spirits in his coterie, which included the marchioness of Pescara Vittoria Colonna, ( April 1490-a widower since 1525-25 February 1547, aged 57 ), since 1537, and her younger widower sister-in-law, Giulia Gonzaga, ( 1513-marries 1526, aged 13-a widower since 1529, aged 16-16 April 1566, aged 53 ).

Vittoria Colonna ( April 1490 – 25 February 1547 ), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet.

Von Wied was excommunicated on 16 April 1546, and he formally surrendered his electoral titles on 25 February 1547.

# Dorothea ( 1 August 1504 – 11 April 1547 ), married 1 July 1526 to Duke Albert of Prussia.

On April 25, 1547, a pension of 200 marks sterling was assigned to " Sir Edward Basnet ", the Dean, followed, some months later, by pensions of £ 60 each to Chancellor Alien and Precentor Humphrey, and £ 40 to Archdeacon Power.

* April 22 ( Gregorian calendar )-Miguel de Cervantes ( born 1547 )

On 24 April 1547, the imperial forces gathered by Charles and Pope Paul III routed the League's forces at the Battle of Mühlberg, capturing many leaders, including, most notably, Johann Frederick the Magnanimous and Philip of Hesse, and forcing residents of thirty different cities to reconvert.

King Edward VI formally suppressed St Patrick's Cathedral and, on 25 April 1547, its silver, jewels and ornaments were transferred to the dean and chapter of Christ Church.

Cheke was active in public life ; he sat, as member for Bletchingley, for the parliaments of 1547 and 1552-1553 ; he was made provost of King's College, Cambridge ( 1 April 1548 ), was one of the commissioners for visiting that university as well as the University of Oxford and Eton College, and was appointed with seven divines to draw up a body of laws for the governance of the church.

Returning to France, he took part in different military operations ; and having been made colonel-general of the infantry ( April 1547 ), exhibited great capacity and intelligence as a military reformer.

Due to disagreement in strategy, the League's defenses were finally routed on 24 April 1547 at the Battle of Mühlberg, where John Frederick I was taken prisoner.

The Battle of Mühlberg, 24 April 1547, went against him and dispersed his army.

During an armistice in April 1547, John Knox entered the castle and served as the garrison's preacher for the remainder of the siege.

* Henry VIII of England ( April 21, 1509 – January 28, 1547 ).

The forces of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor defeated the Schmalkaldic League at the Battle of Mühlberg near the castle on April 24, 1547.

According to contemporary chronicles, all of this happened on the same day, 24 April 1547.

He also participated with Charles in the war against the Schmalkaldic League, culminating in the Battle of Mühlberg on 24 April 1547.

In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April, inclusively.

When the United States resumed EVAs on April 7, 1983, astronauts started using an Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( EMU ) for self-contained life support independent of the spacecraft.

On April 27, 1894, he established communications between the Paris stock exchange and the Milan stock exchange, again over a single wire, using his new invention, the retransmitter.

* In April 2005, an agreement was signed to build a railway from Turkey through Georgia to Azerbaijan ( see Kars Baku Tbilisi railway line ) probably using ( Standard gauge ) supposedly so that it can eventually link with China.

It is based on XHTML 1. 0 Strict, but includes minor changes, can be customized, is reformulated using modules from Modularization of XHTML, which was published April 10, 2001, as a W3C Recommendation.

In April 2006 a team led by Joe Thornton, assistant professor of biology at the University of Oregon's Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, using techniques for resurrecting ancient genes, reconstructed the evolution of an apparently irreducibly complex molecular system.

In 2009, the U. S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it would begin using ICD-10 on April 1, 2010, with full compliance by all involved parties by 2013.

Hazmi obtained a B-1 / B-2 tourist visa on April 3, 1999 from the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using a new passport he acquired a few weeks earlier.

In April 1988, President Reagan invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, freezing Panamanian Government assets in U. S. banks, withholding fees for using the canal, and prohibiting payments by American agencies, firms, and individuals to the Noriega regime.

In April 1940, Popular Science showed an example of a radar unit using the Watson-Watt patent in an article on air defence, but not knowing that the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy were working on radars with the same principle, stated under the illustration, " This is not U. S. Army equipment.

In April 2009, Clemens was the subject of an unauthorized biography by Jeff Pearlman, titled The Rocket that Fell to Earth-Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortaility, that focused on his childhood and early career and accused Mike Piazza of using steroids.

The album was recorded from April to July in 1978 using a variety of electronic equipment, including various synthesizers such as the KORG PS-3100 polyphonic synthesizer, Oberheim Eight-Voice, Moog III-C, Polymoog, Minimoog, and Micromoog, as well as the Korg VC-10 vocoder, KORG SQ-10 analog sequencer, and Syn-Drums electronic drum kit.

Superconductivity was discovered on April 8, 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who was studying the resistance of solid mercury at cryogenic temperatures using the recently-produced liquid helium as a refrigerant.

' Talkback ' radio, using a seven-second time lapse mechanism, began in Australia in April 1967, simultaneously on 2SM, Sydney ( with Mike Walsh ) and 3DB, Melbourne ( with Barry Jones ).

In April 2006 an instance with 85, 900 points was solved using Concorde TSP Solver, taking over 136 CPU-years, see.

Finally, in April 1863, Grant marched Union troops down the west side of the Mississippi River and crossed east over at Bruinsburg using Adm. David Porter's naval ships.

Mandela's reputation was damaged by her rhetoric, the most noteworthy example of this being a speech she gave in Munsieville on 13 April 1986, where she endorsed the practice of necklacing ( burning people alive using tyres and petrol ) in the struggle to end apartheid.

In April 2003, AMD released the first x86 processor with 64-bit physical memory address registers capable of addressing much more than 4 GB of memory using the new x86-64 extension ( also known as x64 ).

* April 12 – April 14 – The first ever east – west transatlantic aeroplane flight takes place from Dublin, Ireland, to Greenly Island, Canada, using German Junkers W33 Bremen.

* April 3 – The Brighton Beach Hotel in Coney Island is moved 520 feet using six steam locomotives by Civil Engineer B. C.

* April 24 – China's first satellite ( Dong Fang Hong 1 ) is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket ( CZ-1 ).

* April 4 – April 22 – The paddle steamer SS Sirius ( 1837 ) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork, Ireland, in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.

In April 1968, The New York Times — using Telfer as a main source — introduced the XYY genetic condition to the general public in a three-part series on consecutive days that began with a Sunday front-page story about the planned use of the condition as a mitigating factor in two murder trials in Paris and Melbourne — and falsely reported that Richard Speck was an XYY male and that the condition would be used in an appeal of his murder conviction.