Historic Event
Apr 2 Sixth Impressionist Exhibition opens in Paris organized by Edgar Degas and showing his famous "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years", the only sculpture shown in his lifetime
- Apr 5 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
- Apr 11 Spelman College founded as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in basement of Friendship Baptist Church, Atlanta
- Apr 14 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight in El Paso, Texas.
- Apr 16 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
- Apr 18 Natural History Museum opens in South Kensington, England
- Apr 23 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience" premieres at The Opera Comique, London
- Apr 25 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
- Apr 27 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
- Apr 28 French troops sent into Tunisia
Historic Event
Apr 28 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Lincoln, New Mexico
