April
In the Gregorian calendar, April is the fourth month of the year and is one of four months that have 30 days. It was the second month of the year in the old Roman calendar before King Numa Pompilius added January and February around 700 BC. C. The ancient Romans called it aprilis, in Latin.
The exact origin of the word "April" is not known. It has been related to the verb aperire ('to open'), due to the supposed form aperilis, associating it with the fact that in this month spring opens the earth, the flowers, etc.. Ovid joins this idea; but there is no etymological foundation that supports it.
The Greek aphrós ('foam') has also been proposed as its origin through the form aphrilis. This name bears a resemblance to Aphrodite, a Greek word that includes the word foam and means Aphrodite, the Greek name of a mythological goddess, whom the Romans called Venus.
April begins on the same day of the week as July every year, and as January in leap years. April ends on the same day of the week as December each year.
Events in April
- On April 1, 1939 the Spanish civil war ended.
- The World Day of Autism Awareness is celebrated on 2 April, decreed on 18 December 2007 by the United Nations General Assembly in resolution 62/139.
- On April 2, Argentina commemorates the Day of the Veteran and the Falls in the Falklands War.
- On April 2, 1867, during the Second French Intervention in Mexico, Porfirio Díaz defeats the French army in the 3rd battle of Puebla, the last formal battle between the French army (although he was commanded by a Mexican conservative) and its conservative allies and the Republican Mexican troops.
- On April 2, 2005, in the Vatican City, Pope John Paul II died.
- On April 3, 1905, in Buenos Aires (Argentina) the Club Atlético Boca Juniors was founded.
- On April 5, 1818, in Chile the battle of Maipú was waged, in which the army of General José San Martín expelled the Spanish and assured the independence of the region.
- The World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April.
- On April 7, 1889 the Chilean poetess, diplomat and pedagogue Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American person and the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- On 8 April 1994, the body of the singer and guitarist of Nirvana Kurt Cobain was found. It is presumed that he took his life on April 5, 3 days earlier.
- On April 8, 1908 the Club The Strongest was founded in La Paz (Bolivia).
- On April 9, 1948 in Bogotá, Colombia, liberal politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was murdered, a fact that unleashed the revolt known as El Bogotazo.
- On April 10, 1892 José Martí founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC).
- On April 10, 1919, Emiliano Zapata was murdered in Mexico.
- On April 11, 1856, Rivas' battle between the Costa Rican army and the American filibusters of William Walker took place, in which Juan Santamaría, a national hero of that country, died, so that day his party was celebrated.
- On April 11, 2002 he was deposed by a coup in Venezuela, known as the "Carmonazo", the president of the republic Hugo Chávez, which leaves more than a dozen people dead and several dozen injured. It'll be spare two days later.
- On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, aboard the ship Vostok-1It's the first human being to reach space.
- On April 14, 1931, the Second Spanish Republic began.
- The Human Genome Project was completed on 14 April 2003.
- On April 15, 1452 the Italian painter and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci was born.
- On April 15, 1912 the most luxurious ship of the moment, the RMS Titanic, sinks after crashing into an iceberg.
- On April 15, 1957, Mexican actor and singer Pedro Infante died in an air accident.
- On April 16, 1930 the Peruvian Marxist writer, journalist and political thinker José Carlos Mariátegui died.
- On April 16, 2007 Cho Seung-hui performed the well-known Virginia Tech Massacre.
- On 16 April 2016, an earthquake of 7.8 degrees in the Richter Scale shakes the Ecuadorian provinces of Esmeraldas and Manabí. She left over 600 people dead.
- On April 17, 2014, the Colombian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, died.
- On April 18, 1955 the German physicist Albert Einstein died.
- On April 19, 1810, Venezuela's first cry of independence against Spain was given.
- On April 19, 1825 the Treinta and Tres Orientales—a group of men led by Juan Antonio Lavalleja— undertook an insurrection to regain the independence of the Eastern Province (now Uruguay), at that time under Brazilian rule.
- On April 19, 1925, the Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo de Chile was founded
- On April 20, 1889 the German dictator Adolf Hitler was born.
- On April 20, 1999, two teenagers from Colorado, the United States, murdered 12 students and a professor at Columbine Institute. Then they kill themselves.
- On April 21, 1792 in Ouro Preto (Brazil) is hanged Tiradentes (Joaquim José da Silva Xavier) who, with his ideals of freedom, had plotted against the Portuguese crown.
- On April 21, 1937 the Club Deportivo Universidad Católica de Chile was founded.
- On April 22, 1945, the Russians began the siege and battle of Berlin in the Second World War.
- Since 22 April 1970 the International Day of Mother Earth is celebrated.
- On April 23, 1521 the War of the Communities of Castile ended with the defeat of the communers in the battle of Villalar by the army of Carlos I, being executed his captains, one day later, on April 24.
- On April 23, 1616 Miguel de Cervantes died. On the occasion of this ephemeris, the Cervantes Prize has been awarded since 1976.
- On April 23, 1616 the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died.
- On April 23, 1616 William Shakespeare died.
- On April 23, 1995, in Paris, the General Conference of the Unesco adopted on April 23 as the "International Day of the Book and the Law of Author" by the symbolism of great chance and the weight of the three paragraphs above.
- On 24 April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space.
- On April 25, 1707, the troops of Felipe V de Borbón defeated those of the Archduke Charles of Austria in the battle of Almansa.
- 1974: in Portugal the Clavel Revolution takes place. The military movement puts an end to the corporate regime established by António de Oliveira Salazar in the twenties and continued by Marcelo Caetano.
- On 26 April 1986 at 1:30 a.m., the Chernobyl nuclear power plant reactor number 4 explodes in Ukraine, creating the second most serious nuclear accident in history and the second worst human catastrophe followed by the Fukushima I nuclear accident.
- On April 27, 1927 Chile, the Carabineros de Chile were founded by President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.
- April 27 is World Design Day.
- On April 28, 1945, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was murdered.
- April 29 is International Dance Day.
- On April 29, 2004, General Motors closes the first American car brand, the centenary Oldsmobile.
- On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide in the ruins of Berlin, surrounded by the Soviet Army.
- April 30 is the day of the Master in Paraguay.
- During the night of April 30 until the dawn of May 1, the Walpurgis Night is celebrated, especially in Europe.
- On April 30, it is the Children's Day in Mexico.
Other data
- For the Catholic Church, this month is dedicated to the Eucharist, the Divine Holy Spirit and the Divine Mercy.
Iconology
April, Aprilis, derived from aperire which means to open, because in this month the earth opens its bosom to start producing flowers and fruits, it is under the protection of Venus and has been represented in a man in an attitude of dancing to the sound of an instrument. According to Ausonius, April does her honor to Venus girded with myrtle.
In this month the light is perceived mixed with the smoke given off by the incense to celebrate the beneficial Ceres. The torch placed next to Abril oscillates its flames intermingled with soft smells. Perfumed environments, exquisite aromas and voluptuous balms always make up the retinue and entourage of the goddess Pafos. April is the second month of the year of Romulus, it is the one that Ovid names... Venerisque secundus.