Historical Events
Hard Times
Apr 1 "Hard Times" begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, "Household Words"
Mazeppa
Apr 16 Franz Liszt's symphonic poem "Mazeppa" premieres at the Court Theatre in Weimar
- Apr 16 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
- Apr 16 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach, NY, 311 die
- Apr 29 Ashmun Institute (later Lincoln University), in Hinsonville, Pennsylvania, receives its charter from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, making it the 1st degree-granting Black college in US
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 1 Bill Traylor, African-American artist of folk and modern art, born near Pleasant Hill, Alabama (d. 1949) [1]
- Apr 5 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, Basque composer, born in Ibarra, Álava (d. 1916)
- Apr 9 Seaborn McDaniel Denson, American composer, born in Cleburne County, Alabama (d. 1936)
- Apr 11 Hugh Massie, Australian cricket batsman and captain (9 Tests; NSW), born in Port Fairy, Australia (d. 1938)
- Apr 13 Richard T. Ely, American economist and author (Hard Times), born in Ripley, New York (d. 1943)
- Apr 21 Eusapia Palladino, Italian spiritual medium, born in Minervino Murge, Apulia (d. 1918)
- Apr 21 William Stang, German Roman Catholic Bishop, born in Bad Schönborn, Germany (d. 1907)
- Apr 21 Władysław Rzepko, Polish composer, born in Piórków, Poland (d. 1932)
- Apr 22 Henri La Fontaine, Belgian international lawyer (1st Socialist to win Nobel Peace Prize 1913), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1943)
- Apr 25 Charles Sumner Tainter, American inventor of sound-recording instruments (graphophone, dictaphone), born in Watertown, Massachusetts (d. 1940) [1]
- Apr 29 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (Poincaré conjecture), born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France (d. 1912)
Famous Weddings
Franz Joseph I
Apr 24 Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (23) weds Elisabeth, Duchess of Bavaria (16) at the Augustinerkirche, Vienna
Famous Deaths
- Apr 6 William Strickland, US architect, dies
- Apr 11 Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
- Apr 15 Arthur Aikin, English scientist and writer (b. 1773)
- Apr 17 Gottlob Wiedebein, German composer, dies at 74
- Apr 18 Józef Elsner, Polish composer, musicologist, and teacher of Chopin, dies at 84
- Apr 19 Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
- Apr 22 Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier, dies at 67
- Apr 29 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general, dies at 85
