Events in History
Historic Publication
Apr 1 "Hard Times" begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, "Household Words"
Charles Dickens
- Apr 16 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
Birthdays in History
- Apr 1 Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949)
- Apr 13 Richard T. Ely, American economist and author (Hard Times), born in Ripley, New York (d. 1943)
- Apr 21 Eusapia Palladino, Italian spiritual medium, born in Minervino Murge, Apulia (d. 1918)
- Apr 21 William Stang, German Roman Catholic Bishop, born in Bad Schönborn, Germany (d. 1907)
- Apr 22 Henri La Fontaine, Belgian international lawyer (Nobel 1913), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1943)
- Apr 29 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (Poincaré conjecture), born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France (d. 1912)
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Apr 24 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
Franz Joseph I
Deaths in History
- Apr 6 William Strickland, US architect, dies
- Apr 11 Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
- Apr 15 Arthur Aikin, English scientist & writer (b. 1773)
- Apr 19 Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
- Apr 22 Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician & soldier, dies at 67
- Apr 29 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general, dies at 85