1946 April 17: Evacuation Day, Syria
April 18: Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day
1980 April 18: Independence Day of Zimbabwe
April 19, 1940: Indian Day in Brazil
303 April 23: Catalonia: Sant Jordi’s Day
1915 April 24: Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
1916 April 24: Proclamation of the Irish Republic commences the Easter Rising
1974 April 25: Carnation Revolution in Portugal
1937 April 26: Bombing of Guernica, Basque Country
1961 April 27: Sierra Leone Independence Day
1994 April 27: Freedom Day in South Africa, first post-apartheid elections
1960 April 27: Togo Independence Day
1707 May 1: the Act of Union of Scotland and England