What Happened in April 1886

Historical Events

Apr 6 City of Vancouver, British Columbia incorporated
Apr 6 Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga

Irish Home Rule Bill

Apr 8 William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

British Prime Minister William Gladstone

Freud Opens Practice

Apr 25 Sigmund Freud opens his first neurologist practice at Rathausstrasse 7 in Vienna

Apr 29 1st public Dutch electricity service begins

Events in 1886

Famous Birthdays

Apr 1 Casimir von Pászthory, Austrian composer, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1966)

Wallace Beery (1886-1949)

Apr 1 American circus performer (Ringling Brothers Circus) and actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8), born in Kansas City, Missouri

Apr 3 (Arthur) "Dooley" Wilson, American piano player, singer, and actor (Casablanca; Stormy Weather; Beulah), born in Tyler, Texas (d. 1953)
Apr 5 Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1955)
Apr 6 "Smokey" Joe Williams, American Baseball HOF pitcher (NgL, Mexico, Caribbean 1905-32; no-hitter 1919 NY Lincoln Giants), born in Seguin, Texas (d. 1951)
Apr 6 Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
Apr 7 Ed Lafitte, American baseball pitcher (no-hitter 1914 Brooklyn Tip-Tops), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1971)

Jim Barnes (1886-1966)

Apr 8 English golfer (PGA C'ship 1916, 19; US Open 1921, British Open 1925; World Golf HOF), born in Lelant, Cornwall, England

Apr 8 Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright and writer (Years of Grace), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1967)
Apr 10 Val Paul, American actor and director (Suspense, The Phantom Thief), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1962)
Apr 13 Ethel Leginska [Liggins], British pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator, born in Hull, Yorkshire, England (d. 1970)
Apr 14 Edward C. Tolman, American psychologist (behaviorism), born in West Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1959)
Apr 14 Ernst Robert Curtius, German literature historian, born in Thann, Haut-Rhin (d. 1956)
Apr 15 Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet, born in Kronshtadt, Russia (d. 1921)
Apr 16 Ernst Thälmann, German communist presidential candidate, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1944)
Apr 16 Jēkabs Graubiņš, Latvian composer, born in Preiļi Palace, Latvia (d. 1961)
Apr 16 Konstantin G. Mostras, Russian composer, born in Tambovsky District, Tambov Oblast, Russia (d. 1965)
Apr 17 Otto Lederer, Austrian actor (The Jazz Singer), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
Apr 21 Charles "Charlie" Naughton, Scottish actor (Frozen Limits), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1976)
Apr 24 Kurt Pinthus, German-American writer, born in Erfurt (d. 1975)
Apr 26 Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (Oh My Mother Tongue!), born in Quşlawıç, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1913)
Apr 26 Ma Rainey [Gertrude Pridgett], American singer "Mother of the Blues", born in Columbus, Georgia (d. 1939)
Apr 28 Erich Salomon, German photographer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1944)
Apr 30 Frank Merrick, English composer, born in Clifton, Bristol, England (d. 1981)

Born in 1886

Famous Weddings

Paul Cézanne

Apr 28 Painter Paul Cézanne (47) weds Marie-Hortense Fiquet (36)

Famous Deaths

Apr 9 Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
Apr 13 John Humphrey Noyes, American preacher and founder of the Oneida Community (Perfectionists), dies at 74
Apr 13 Károly Thern, Hungarian composer, pianist, and arranger, dies at 68
Apr 27 Henry Hobson Richardson, American Romanesque revival architect (Thomas Crane Public Library), dies of Bright's disease at 47