- Apr 1 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
- Apr 1 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
Sixth Impressionist Exhibition
Apr 2 Sixth Impressionist Exhibition opens in Paris organized by Edgar Degas and showing his famous "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years", the only sculpture shown in his lifetime
- Apr 5 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
- Apr 11 Spelman College founded as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in basement of Friendship Baptist Church, Atlanta
- Apr 14 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight in El Paso, Texas.
- Apr 16 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
- Apr 18 Natural History Museum opens in South Kensington, England
Patience
Apr 23 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "Patience" premieres at The Opera Comique, London
Billy the Kid Escapes
Apr 28 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Lincoln, New Mexico
- Apr 28 French troops sent into Tunisia
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