Historical Events
Darwin Reaches Rio de Janeiro
Apr 4 Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 5 Jules Ferry, French statesman, born in Saint-Dié, France (d. 1893)
- Apr 8 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal and Chief of the German General Staff, born in Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1904)
- Apr 13 James Wimshurst, British designer and inventor (electrostatic generator), born in Poplar, England (d. 1898)
- Apr 13 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), born in Ambato, Ecuador (d. 1889)
- Apr 14 James Hewett Ledlie, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Utica, New York (d. 1882)
- Apr 15 Wilhelm Busch, German poet, born in Wiedensahl, Kingdom of Hanover (d. 1908)
- Apr 19 José Echegaray, Spanish dramatist (Nobel 1904), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1916)
- Apr 19 Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States as the wife of James A. Garfield (1881), born in Garrettsville, Ohio (d. 1918)
- Apr 22 Julius Sterling Morton, American politician (3rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture) and founder of Arbor Day, born in Adams, New York (d. 1902)
