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April 12

 * 1204 - Constantinople is sacked by warriors of the Fourth Crusade.
 * 1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
 * 1864 - American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre -- Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
 * 1865 - American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.