Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 7
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- 529 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (pictured) issued the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a first attempt to codify Roman law.
- 1348 – King Charles of Bohemia issued a Golden Bull to establish Charles University in Prague, the first university in Central Europe.
- 1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, sometimes cited as marking the beginning of musical Romanticism and the end of the Classical Era, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1868 – D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian Father of Confederation, was assassinated – to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the federal level.
- 1954 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the domino theory, speculating that if one nation in a region came under the influence of communism, then its surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.