Historical Events
- Apr 2 1st Italian Parliament meets at Turin
Pony Express Begins
Apr 3 Start of the Pony Express, delivers mail by horse and rider relay teams between St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California
- Apr 6 Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Apr 7 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
- Apr 9 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville uses his phonautograph to make a 10-second recording of "Au Clair de la Lune"
- Apr 13 1st Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California
- Apr 14 1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St Joseph, Missouri
Police Halt Boxing Match
Apr 17 Champion of England Tom Sayers and American John Heenan fight out brutal 2 hour, 27 minute draw near Farnborough, England; police stop fight acknowledged as first world title bout
Famous Birthdays
Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951)
Apr 7 American cereal manufacturer (Kellogg's cereal brand), born in Battle Creek, Michigan
- Apr 13 James Ensor, Flemish painter and etcher (De lampenjongen), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1949)
- Apr 20 Charles Gordon Curtis, American inventor (Curtis-steam turbine), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1953)
- Apr 20 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch politician (SDAP), born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1930)
- Apr 22 Ada Rehan, Irish-American stage actress and comedian (Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre), born in County Limerick, Ireland (d. 1916)
- Apr 29 Lorado Taft, American sculptor (Black Hawk), born in Elmwood, Illinois (d. 1936)
