What Happened in April 1858

Historical Events

Apr 14 Abolitionist John Brown meets Harriet Tubman at a Constitutional Convention convened in Chatham, Ontario

Apr 15 Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
Apr 16 The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up

Apr 1 Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
Apr 1 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
Apr 3 Matthew Ricketts, 1st African American man elected to Neb State Legislature, born in Henry County, Kentucky (d. 1917)
Apr 4 Remy de Gourmont, French poet, born in Bazoches-en-Houlmes, France (d. 1915)
Apr 7 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
Apr 15 Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social), born in Épinal, France (d. 1917)
Apr 19 May Robson [Mary J Robison], Australian actress (Apple Annie), born in Moama, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1942)
Apr 19 Siegfried Ochs, German composer, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1929)
Apr 20 Auguste Chapuis, French composer, born in Dampierre-sur-Salon, France (d. 1933)
Apr 22 Ethel Smyth, English composer, born in Sidcup, Kent (d. 1944)
Apr 23 Max Planck, German physicist, father of Quantum Physics (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918), born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein (d. 1947)
Apr 30 Mary Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893) as second wife of the 23rd United States president Benjamin Harrison, born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania (d. 1948)

Apr 3 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer and royal chaplain master, dies at 79
Apr 7 Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher and composer, dies at 76
Apr 16 Johann Baptist Cramer, German British pianist, composer and publisher, dies at 87
Apr 28 Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, dies at 56