April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).
Historical Events for April, 1816
Day of Week 10th » The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
Day of Week 14th » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1816
5th » Samuel Freeman Miller, American physician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1890)
17th » Thomas Hazlehurst (chapel builder) called Thomas Hazlehurst, English architect (d. 1876)
20th » Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895)
21st » Charlotte Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1855)
22nd » Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
Famous Deaths for April 1816
28th » Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1762)