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
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists