Historical Events in April 1881

Apr 5 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty

Apr 11 River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River, Ontario, 180 die

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" produced in 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