What Happened In April 1882 - Historical Events 1882 April

Historical Events for April, 1882

3rd » American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford (outlaw) named Robert Ford.
25th » Tonkin Campaign: French Third Republic French and Nguyễn Dynasty Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière (naval officer) Henri Rivière Battle of Hanoi (1882) seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
29th » The "Elektromote" forerunner of the trolleybus is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.

1st » Paul Anspach, Belgian fencer (d. 1991)
3rd » Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (d. 1952)
7th » Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
9th » Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1946)
14th » Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1936)
16th » Seth Bingham, American organist and composer (d. 1972)
17th » Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1951)
18th » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964)
18th » Leopold Stokowski, Polish-English conductor (d. 1977)
19th » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (d. 1954)
20th » Holland Smith, American general (d. 1967)
21st » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
23rd » Albert Coates (musician) e.g Albert Coates, English composer and conductor (d. 1953)
24th » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish air marshal (d. 1970)
27th » Jessie Redmon Fauset, American author and poet (d. 1961)
29th » Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer (d. 1945)

3rd » Jesse James, American criminal (b. 1847)
9th » Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter, illustrator, and poet (b. 1828)
13th » Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809)
17th » George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810)
19th » Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
27th » Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet (b. 1803)