Historical Events
- Apr 1 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
- Apr 1 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
Sixth Impressionist Exhibition
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
Patience
Apr 23 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "Patience" premieres at The Opera Comique, London
Billy the Kid Escapes
Apr 28 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Lincoln, New Mexico
- Apr 28 French troops sent into Tunisia
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 3 Alcide de Gasperi, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (1945-53), born in Pieve Tesino, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary (d. 1954)
- Apr 3 Margaret "Daisy" Ashford, British child author who wrote "The Young Visiters" (Mister Salteena's Plan) aged 9, born in Petersham, Surrey (d. 1972)
- Apr 4 Charles Earle Funk, American lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls) (d. 1957)
- Apr 8 Fernand Lamy, French composer, born in Chauvigny, France (d. 1966)
- Apr 11 Harvey Bartlett Gaul, American composer, born in New York City (d. 1945)
- Apr 16 Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax and British ambassador to US (1940-46), born in Powderham Castle, Devon, England (d. 1959)
- Apr 17 Anton Wildgans, Austrian poet and playwright (Armut), born in Vienna (d. 1932)
- Apr 18 Max Weber, Polish-Russian-American painter, born in Białystok, Russian Empire (d. 1961)
- Apr 20 Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer (Kirov is With Us), born in Modlin Fortress, Poland (d. 1950)
- Apr 20 Sem Dresden, Dutch composer and conductor, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1957)
- Apr 21 Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter and caricaturist (Rocks of Oran), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1953)
- Apr 22 Alexander Kerensky, Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government (1917), born in Simbirsk, Russian Empire (d. 1970)
- Apr 23 Claude Carter, South African cricket spin bowler (19 Tests, 28 wickets, BB 6/50; Natal, Transvaal), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1952)
- Apr 25 Hans Windisch, German New Testament scholar, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1935)
Famous Deaths
- Apr 7 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican representative of the people, dies at 65
- Apr 11 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies of pneumonia at 40
- Apr 12 James L. Lardner, American naval officer (American Civil War), dies at 78
- Apr 15 Sophia Perovskaya, Soviet icon, aristocrat, and socialist revolutionary (Narodnaya Volya), who helped orchestrate the successful assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, executed by hanging at 27
- Apr 16 George William Martin, English chorister, organist, composer, educator, and founder of the National Choral Society, dies at 53
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Apr 19 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1868, 1874-80) and writer, dies of bronchitis at 76
