1505
Negombo is the Catholic city of Sri Lanka
significant Portuguese colonial rule from 1505 to 1658 significantly established the Catholic Karava fishing-caste community that continues to dominate the wider Negombo population.
On this day
April 21
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on April 21 across the 5 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
5 events
4 centuries
4 countries
1526
The First Battle of Panipat (April 21, 1526)
saw Babur (Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, 1483-1530) defeat Ibrahim Lodi (the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate).
1788
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier
called Tiradentes ("Tooth-Puller" — he had practiced dentistry in addition to his Portuguese-army cavalry duties, in the cash-poor mining towns of Minas Gerais where licensed dentists were scarce), was the iconic figure of the Inconfidência Mineira of 1788-1789, the first…
1879
Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879-1904)
is one of the most-significant figures in modern Indonesian political and cultural history — the daughter of a Javanese aristocratic family who became the foundational pioneer of Indonesian feminism, women's education, and wider progressive thought.
1957
Brasília
Brasília was built from nothing in 41 months — the cornerstone was laid in 1957 and the inauguration was April 21, 1960.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →