April 2

April 2 is the 92nd day of the Gregorian calendar ( 93rd in leap years), thus 273 days remain until the end of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 18th century
  • 2.2 18th century
  • 2.3 19th century
  • 2.4 20th century 2.4.1 1901-1950
  • 2.4.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 19th century
  • 3.2 19th century
  • 3.3 20th century
  • 3.4 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Economy

Science and Technology

Culture

Society

Religion

  • 0999: After the death of Gregory V. Gerbert of Aurillac elected as the first Frenchman to the Pope and takes the name of Sylvester II.
  • 1285: Just four days after the death of Martin IV Giacomo Savelli is selected on the conclave in Perugia the Pope. He opts for the name of Honorius IV
  • 2005: Pope John Paul II dies in Rome. His death redeemed the world from great sympathy and strong media interest.

Disasters

  • 2007: A severe earthquake measuring 8.1 on the moment magnitude scale triggered a tsunami that devastated the Solomon Islands. The up to five meters high tsunami costs at least 43 persons life, destroyed 13 villages, making 5,000 people homeless.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 18th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 19th century

  • 0930: Adémar, Count of Poitou and Count of Angoulême
  • 1118: Baldwin I, Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem
  • 1272: Richard Cornwall, King of the HRR
  • 1284: Werner von Eppstein, Archbishop of Mainz, Reichserzkanzler
  • 1335: Henry of Carinthia, Duke of Carinthia, Count of Tyrol, King of Bohemia and Poland
  • 1416: Ferdinand I, King of Aragon
  • 1507: Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Pauline order
  • 1585: Andreas Poach, German Lutheran theologian and reformer
  • 1594: Hermann of Dorne, Mayor of Lübeck
  • 1606: Jacob Lindner, German educator
  • 1640: Paul Fleming, German physician and writer
  • 1641: George of Brunswick and Luneburg -Calenberg, Duke of principalities Calenberg and Göttingen
  • 1657: . Ferdinand III, German Emperor
  • 1741: Christoph Hackner, Silesian architect
  • 1747: Johann Jacob Dillen, German botanist
  • 1777: Maxim Sosontowitsch Berezovsky, Russian composer
  • 1787: Thomas Gage, British general and commander in chief of British forces

19th century

20th century

21st Century

  • 2003: Terenci Moix, Spanish writer
  • 2004: Erich Ahlers, German director of horticulture
  • 2004: John Taras, choreographer and ballet master
  • 2004: Martin Pond, German Fernsehmeteorologe
  • 2005: Alois Vogel, Austrian writer
  • 2005: Hermann Nattkämper, German football player
  • 2005: Marie Louise Fischer, German writer
  • 2005: John Paul II, the Polish Pope
  • 2006: Horst Gibtner, German politicians
  • 2007: Ernst Feick, President of the German Handball Federation
  • 2008: Roger Blachon, French cartoonist
  • 2008: Ray Poole, U.S. American football player
  • 2009: Niki List, Austrian filmmakers
  • 2009: Bud Shank, American jazz musician
  • 2011: Marc Fischer, German journalist and author
  • 2012: Anatoli Vasilievich Ivanov, Russian solo timpanist, composer and conductor
  • 2012: Jim Delaney, American track and field athlete
  • 2013: Jess Franco, Spanish film director
  • 2014: Urs Widmer, Swiss writer

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances Friedrich von Bodelschwinghstraße the Elder, German minister ( Protestant)
  • St. Eustasius, Frankish abbot, missionary and patron saint ( Catholic)
  • Name Days Franz, Sandra, Theodosia, Mirjam

More entries contains the list of commemorative and Action days.

  • Day
  • Day in April

Pictures of April 2

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