Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 6
On April 6:
- 648 BC - Ancient Greeks note earliest solar eclipse in recorded history.
- 1320 - Scots submit Declaration of Arbroath, the first formal declaration of independence by any nation, to Pope John XXII.
- 1652 - Post established at Cape of Good Hope, later to become Capetown, South Africa.
- 1866 - Grand Army of the Republic, an American Civil War veterans organization, founded in Illinois.
- 1886 - Vancouver, British Columbia incorporated.
- 1917 - World War I: The U.S. declared war on Germany.
- 1998 - Pakistan tests medium range missiles capable of hitting India.