Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 8
April 8: Easter in Christianity (2007); Hanamatsuri in Japan.
- 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla (bust pictured) was assassinated at a roadside near Harran.
- 1904 - France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale.
- 1904 - Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, a Holy Book in Thelema.
- 1904 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York was renamed Times Square.
- 1929 - Indian independence movement: In response to the British Empire's Defence of India Act, which gave more power to the police, Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh with the help of Batukeshwar Dutt bombed the Central Assembly in Delhi.