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.

Soon after acquiring the undisputed possession of the Roman empire, Theodosius died at Milan in 395, and two years later ( April 4, 397 ) Ambrose also died.

In 401 Alaric invaded Italy, but he was defeated by the Roman half-Vandal general Flavius Stilicho at Pollentia ( modern Pollenza ) on April 6, 402.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, it was decided to leave the celebration of the feast of St Peter of Verona to local calendars, because he was not as well known worldwide, and Saint Catherine's feast was restored to its traditional date of April 29.

Another example is its self-description as the " Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church " in the 24 April 1870 Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith of the First Vatican Council.

Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

The Concordat of 1801 re-established the Roman Catholic Church in France with effect from Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802, restoring the names of the days of the week with the ones they had in the Gregorian Calendar, while keeping the rest of the Republican Calendar, and fixing Sunday as the official day of rest and religious celebration.

In a great sermon ( during Easter week ) on 10 April 1588, he stoutly vindicated the Reformed character of the Church of England against the claims of Roman Catholicism and adduced John Calvin as a new writer, with lavish praise and affection.

Otho (; 28 April 32 – 16 April 69 ), was Roman Emperor for three months, from 15 January to 16 April 69.

*** The two-part Roman Catholic meditation on Origen by Pope Benedict XVI: April 25, 2007 and May 2, 2007.

The arrival of Father Pedro Fernández de la Torre on April 2, 1556, as the first bishop of Asunción marked the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay.

Pope Anastasius III ( died June 913 ) was Pope from April 911 to June 913, was a Roman by birth.

In April 1220, Frederick II was elected Emperor, and on 22 November 1220 he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.

In April 716 he managed to get Liutprand to agree not to retake the Cottian Alps, which had been granted to the Roman Church in the reign of Aripert II.

Supporters of Guy II of Spoleto forced Formosus to crown him as a Roman Emperor in April 892.

According to the Roman annalists, this happened on 21 April 753 BC.

Because the majority of ministers in the Petre Roman government were ex-communists, anti-communist protesters initiated a round-the-clock anti-government demonstration in University Square, Bucharest in April 1990.

A new edition of the Roman Missal implementing the Council's decisions was promulgated by Pope Paul VI with the apostolic constitution Missale Romanum of 3 April 1969.

Accordingly, the International Commission for English in the Liturgy prepared, less hurriedly than the first time, a new English translation of the Roman Missal, the completed form of which received the approval of the Holy See in April 2010.

Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211 ), also known as Severus, was Roman Emperor from 193 to 211.

Saint George ( c. 275 / 281 – 23 April 303 ) was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a soldier in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr.

* Todd, M., Roman Britain, Fontana, London 1985

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Although the rendering of the Tetragrammaton as " Yahweh " is found in the Old Testament of versions such as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible, and New Jerusalem Bible ( 1985 ), the liturgical use of Yahweh in vernarcular worship was reprobated by the Vatican in 2008.

This was followed by that same body's Notes on the Correct Way to Present Jews and Judaism in the Teaching and Catechesis of the Roman Catholic Church in 1985.

He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), and in a number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness ( 1985 ) and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

* M. Grant, The Roman Emperors, 1985.

Keitel is the father of three children: daughter Stella ( born 1985 ) from his relationship with Bracco ; son Hudson ( born 2001 ) from his relationship with Lisa Karmazin ; and son Roman ( born 2004 ) from his marriage to Kastner.

Despite his divorces, Harris was a member of the Roman Catholic Knights of Malta, and was also dubbed a knight by the Queen of Denmark in 1985.

The Poem of the Man God by Maria Valtorta was forbidden by the Holy Office under Pope John XXIII in 1959, a condemnation upheld in Cardinal Ratzinger's above-mentioned 1985 letter, almost two decades after the abolition of the Index ; but in 2001 Catholic Bishop Roman Danylak, by then a canon of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and no longer in charge of an eparchy, granted, in his own words, " a letter of commendation, a Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur and a testimonial to this website of a Catholic monk on the writings of Maria Valtorta " ( the website in question being one with the title "— A Contemporary Mystic — acclaimed one of the greatest: Maria Valtorta and her masterwork: The Poem of the Man-God " and in another letter stated that The Poem of the Man-God is, with the other writings of Valtorta, " in perfect consonance with the canonical Gospels, with the traditions and magisterium of the Catholic Church ".

The area to the north of the Strand was long thought to have remained as unsettled fields until the 16th century, but theories by Alan Vince and Martin Biddle that there had been an Anglo-Saxon settlement to the west of the old Roman town of Londinium were borne out by excavations in 1985 and 2005.

One of her last public appearances was in April 1985, when she attended the dedication of a bust in her honor at St. John's ( Roman Catholic ) Hospital in Santa Monica, California, for which her foundation, The Irene Dunne Guild, had raised more than $ 20 million.

* Zwicker U., Greiner H., Hofmann K. & Reithinger M., 1985, Smelting, Refining and Alloying of copper and copper Alloys in Crucible Furnaces During Prehistoric up to Roman Times, P. Craddock & M. Hughes, Furnaces and smelting Technology in Antiquity, British Museum, London

Since 1985, with the publication of the second typical edition of the Latin liturgical books, the Latin hymns of the Roman Office were once again restored to their pre-Urban revision.

* Hägar the Horrible: Roman Holiday ( 1985 ) Charter

Roman Garby-Czerniawski ( 6 February 1910 – 26 April 1985 in London ) was a Polish Air Force Captain and Allied double agent during World War II, using the codename Brutus.

In the 1985 mini-series A. D. Anno Domini, which chronicles the very beginning of Christianity and its struggle with the Roman Empire, the character of Livilla was played by Susan Sarandon.

Between 1974 and 1985, Nikkatsu promoted a number of their leading Roman Porno actresses of the popular BDSM niche under the epithet.

The company was founded in 1985 by Roman Ormandy.

); 1972 ( Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing Cabaret ); 1985 ( Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing Out of Africa ); 1995 ( Mel Gibson won for directing Braveheart ); 2000 ( Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing Traffic ); and 2002 ( Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing The Pianist ).

Archaeological excavation in Ashkelon began in 1985, led by Lawrence Stager The site contains of accumulated rubble from successive Canaanite, Philistine, Phoenician, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, and Crusader occupation.

In 1985 Volf became a member of the Pentecostal side of the official Roman Catholic and Pentecostal dialogue.

The New Jerusalem Bible ( NJB ) is a Roman Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985 by Darton, Longman & Todd and Les Editions du Cerf, and edited by the Reverend Henry Wansbrough.

His retelling of the Arthur legend, Firelord in 1980, Beloved Exile in 1984 and The Last Rainbow in 1985, is set in the 5th century during the collapse of the Roman empire, and his reinterpretation of Robin Hood ( Sherwood, 1991, and Robin and the King, 1993 ) takes place during the Norman conquest and features kings William the Conqueror and William Rufus as major characters.

* Todd, M, Roman Britain, Fontana, London, 1985.

* 1985: Three Generations of Tenor Saxophone with Sal Nistico and Roman Schwaller