On This Day in History
April 05
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? Battle on the Ice: Russian Prince of Novgorod defeats the Teutonic Knights on the frozen Lake Peipus between Estonia and Russia
| Two Moai on the Rano Raraku crater on Rapa Nui from a 1914-15 expedition photograph held in the British Museum |
? Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen is the first European to discover Easter Island, also known as , in the southeastern Pacific Ocean
? Battle of Maipú: Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and , wins a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead
? First civic public park, Birkenhead Park, designed by Joseph Paxton, opens in Birkenhead, England
? Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific
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Pocahontas, the native American princess regarded by many as the mother of modern America, was married on this day, aged about nineteen, to an English settler
