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, 1886
Day of Week 8th » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Government Bill 1886 named Irish Home Rule Bill into the House of Commons of the United Kingdom named British House of Commons.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1886
3rd » Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (d. 1953)
4th » Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (d. 1964)
6th » Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (d. 1972)
6th » Walter Dandy, American neurosurgeon (d. 1946)
6th » Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Indian ruler (d. 1967)
7th » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
8th » Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (d. 1967)
14th » Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar (d. 1956)
14th » Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet (d. 1928)
15th » Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet and critic (d. 1921)
16th » Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944)
16th » Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1944)
22nd » Izidor Cankar, Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat (d. 1958)