April 13

Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes, granting the Protestant Huguenots a measure of religious toleration after decades of war.

George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah, drawn from scriptural texts, received its first performance at a charity concert in Dublin.

Christmas Humphreys, the British barrister who in 1924 founded what became the London Buddhist Society, died in London.