Historical Events
- Apr 22 Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
- Apr 22 British inventor Robert John Tyers patents an in-line roller skate he calls the "Volito", with a single row of 5 wooden wheels, a wooden sole, and a curved iron bar at the front as a rudimentary brake. [1]
- Apr 24 Eugene Scribes opera "Le Menteur Veridique" premieres in Paris
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 1 Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier, Confederate lieutenant general and 30th governor of Kentucky (1887-91), born in Munfordville, Kentucky (d. 1914)
Boss Tweed (1823-1878)
Apr 3 American politician and corrupt New York fraudster, born in New York City
- Apr 4 Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German engineer and inventor (laid undersea cables), born in Gehrden, Hanover, Germany (d. 1883)
- Apr 4 Robert Byington Mitchell, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1882)
- Apr 6 Joseph Medill, Canadian newspaper editor, owner and politician (co-owned Chicago Tribune, Mayor of Chicago 1871-73), born in Saint John, New Brunswick (d. 1899)
- Apr 10 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Jefferson County, Georgia (d. 1862)
Aleksandr Ostrovsky (1823-1886)
Apr 12 Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers), born in Moscow, Russian Empire
- Apr 16 Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (number theory), born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1852)
- Apr 16 Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart [Esther Pariseau], Canadian religious leader (US capitol), born in Saint-Elzéar, Quebec, Canada (d. 1902)
- Apr 16 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1907)
- Apr 22 Alfred Gibbs, American Major General (Union Army), born in Long Island, New York (d. 1868)
- Apr 23 Abdulmejid I, 31st Sultan of Ottoman Empire, born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1861)
- Apr 30 George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll and Secretary of State for India (1868-74, 1880-85), born in Ardencaple Castle, Dunbartonshire (d. 1900)
Famous Deaths
- Apr 7 Jacques Charles [Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles], French inventor and balloonist (with Nicholas Robert was 1st to take flight in a hydrogen balloon), dies at 76
- Apr 10 Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (elementary philosophy), dies at 65
- Apr 23 Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor (portrait busts, patronized by George III), dies at 85
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide