April 11 : Holy Saturday (Eastern Christianity, 2015); Easter Saturday (Western Christianity, 2015)
- 1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: French and Spanish forces fought a massive pitched battle in the Piedmont region of Italy.
- 1888 – The Concertgebouw concert hall (pictured) in Amsterdam was inaugurated.
- 1921 – Emir Abdullah established the first centralized government in the recently created British protectorate of Transjordan .
- 1945 – World War II: American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany.
- 1963 – Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris ("Peace on Earth"), the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than only to Catholics.
More anniversaries: April 10 – April 11 – April 12
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