Alexander I ( c. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim ) and nicknamed " The Fierce ", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.

* 1124: In April or May, David I is crowned King of the Scots.

* April – Scots take Stirling Castle from the English after a siege.

* April 6 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

* April 14 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots ( b. 1535 )

* April 24 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Francis II of France.

Margaret ( Gaelic: Mairead or Maighread ) ( 9 April 1283 – 26 September 1290 ) was Queen of Scots and a Norwegian princess, also known as Margaret of Scotland ( Norwegian: Margrete av Skottland ) and the Maid of Norway ( Norwegian: Jomfruen av Norge ).

* April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.

The Scots were defeated at Dunbar and the English took Dunbar Castle on 27 April 1296.

"" Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington plot ," The Month, Volume 109 online ( April 1907 ) pp 356 – 65

* James Hamilton, Earl of Arran ( c. 1517 – 1575 ) ( from 8 February 1548, Duke of Châtelherault ) was Governor and Protector of the Kingdom ( 3 January 1543 – 12 April 1554 ) for Mary, Queen of Scots.

A few days later, on 4 April Robert III died, and the 12 year-old uncrowned King of Scots began his 18-year detention.

* 24 April 1558: Mary, Queen of Scots is married to the Dauphin Francis ( later Francis II of France ), son of Henry II of France.

During March and early April, the Marquess of Newcastle fought several delaying actions as he tried to prevent the Scots from crossing the River Tyne and surrounding the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.

On 24 April 1558, the fourteen-year-old Dauphin was married to the Queen of Scots in a union that could have given the future kings of France the throne of Scotland and also a claim to the throne of England through Mary's great-grandfather, King Henry VII of England.

At Amboise in April, Mary was sickened by news of a plot to poison the young queen of Scots.

The marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the dauphin of France on 24 April 1558 was quickly followed by Mary Tudor's death and the succession to the throne of England by Elizabeth on 17 November 1558.

Forays were made before the Battle of Culloden and on the day before the battle, 15 April 1746, about 200 of the McFarquhar's Jacobite force were ambushed by pro-government Scots at the Battle of Littleferry near Golspie.

Robert II ( early 1316 – 19 April 1390 ) became King of Scots in 1371 as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.

The Scots forayed into England in March 1296 — this incursion together with the French treaty angered the English king and provoked an invasion of Scotland taking Berwick on 30 March before defeating the Scots army at Dunbar on 27 April.

Balliol lost many of his major supporters to the Bruce side and the main English garrisons began to fall to the Scots — Cupar in the spring or summer of 1339, Perth taken by Robert also in 1339 and Edinburgh by William, Earl of Douglas in April 1341

Robert III ( 14 August 1337 – April 1406 ) was King of Scots from 1390 to his death.

Malcolm IV ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Máel Coluim mac Eanric ; Modern Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Eanraig ), nicknamed Virgo, " the Maiden " ( between 23 April and 24 May 11419 December 1165 ), King of Scots, was the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria ( died 1152 ) and Ada de Warenne.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

You must attach a statement to your return, if you take advantage of this automatic extension, showing that you were in Alaska or were outside the United States or Puerto Rico on April 15 or other due date.

On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.

April sales also were 5% below those of April last year, when volume reached a record for any month, $18.9 billion ( see chart on Page One ).

Commerce Department officials were inclined to explain the April sales decline as a reaction from a surge of consumer buying in March.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

Johnston and his wounded horse, named Fire Eater, were taken to his field headquarters on the Corinth road, where his body remained in his tent until the Confederate Army withdrew to Corinth the next day, April 7, 1862.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

In April 1718 fresh confessions were extorted from, and in regard to, Alexei.

As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 were participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on 16 April.

On 15 April, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants were pumped into the spacecraft, while the astronauts rested in anticipation of their launch the next day.

The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.

On the first Arbor Day, April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were planted.

On April 6, 2006, in a case arising from a game involving community college baseball teams, the Supreme Court of California ruled that baseball players in California assume the risk of being hit by baseballs even if the balls were intentionally thrown so as to cause injury.

On the latter front Marshal Vendôme defeated the Imperial army at Calcinato on 19 April, pushing the Imperialists back in confusion ( French forces were now in a position to prepare for the long-anticipated siege of Turin ).

The arrival of troops on 16 December put a final end to the republican resistance without bloodshed, and 57 insurgents were tried ; 38 were condemned to deportation ( though several were pardoned in April ).

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

In 1931, the castle gardens were first opened to the public, and are now open daily between April and the end of July, after which the Queen arrives for her annual stay.

These were the Yaoundé II Declaration of 4 April 1971 and the Maroua Declaration of 1 June 1975, which were devised to outline maritime boundaries between the two countries following their independence.