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Historical Events

  • Apr 5 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton
  • Apr 14 Persia & Ottoman Turkey sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
  • Apr 28 George B. Vashon becomes 1st African American to enter New York State Bar
Events in 1847

Famous Birthdays

  • Apr 1 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French naval doctor and explorer (French Guiana and the Amazon), born in Lorquin, France (d. 1882)
  • Apr 7 J. P. [Jens Peter] Jacobsen, Danish writer (Niels Lyhne), born in Thisted, Jutland (d. 1885)
  • Apr 9 Francis William Davenport, English composer, born in Wilderslowe, Derby, England (d. 1925)
  • Apr 9 Paolo Tosti, Italian composer, born in Ortona, Italy (d. 1916)
  • Apr 10 Charles Swinnerton Heap, English composer, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1900)

Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911)

Apr 10 Hungarian-American publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World) and Democratic politician whose bequest founded the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize, born in Makó, Kingdom of Hungary

Joseph Pulitzer
  • Apr 13 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, Dutch jurist and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1888-93), born in Wadenoijen, Netherlands (d. 1908)
  • Apr 16 Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, born in Wädenswil, Switerland (d. 1906)
Born in 1847

Famous Deaths

  • Apr 23 Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish writer, composer and Swedish nationalist, dies at 64

Archduke Charles (1771-1847)

Apr 30 Duke of Teschen, Austrian field marshal during the Napoleonic wars, dies at 75

Archduke Charles



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