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The 2nt o Aprile is the 92nt day o the year (93rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 273 days tae come.
| Mairch | Days in Aprile | Mey |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | ||
- 999 - Pape Sylvester II is electit.
- 1285 - Pape Martin IV is electit.
- 1513 - Florida is sichtit bi a European for the first time.
- 1744 - The first offeecial gowf tournament is held in Leith, near Edinburgh.
- 1783 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke o Portland becomes Prime meenister o Great Breetain.
- 1800 - Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere o his first symphony in Vienna.
- 1917 - Warld War I: US Preses Woodrow Wilson asks Congress for War wi Germany.
- 1930 - Proclamation o Haile Selassie as Emperor o Ethiopie.
- 1943 - Breetish ship "Melbourne Star" is torpedoed bi a German U-boat aff Bermuda.
- 1945 - Brazil an the Soviet Union staiblish diplomatic relations.
- 1974 - French Preses Georges Pompidou dies in affice.
- 1982 - Argentine forces land on the Falkland Islands, stairtin the Falklands War.
- 1991 - Munt Pinatubo in the Philippines stairts eruptin.
- 2005 - Pape John Paul II dees agit 84, endin the seicont-langest Papacy in histerie.
- 2007 - A major yirdquauk hits the Solomon Islands.
- 2011 - Indie wins the Cricket Warld Cup for a seicont time, defeatin Sri Lanka in the final.
- 2015 - A terrorist attack bi Al-Shabaab militants kills 147 fowk at Garissa Varsity in Kenyae.
- 2019 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika demits as Preses o Algerie wi immediate effect efter weeks o protests.
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- 742 - Charlemagne, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 814)
- 1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer (d. 1798)
- 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Dens author (d. 1875)
- 1809 - Allen Thomson, Scots medicinar (d. 1884)
- 1840 - Emile Zola, French novelist, playwricht an jurnalist (d. 1902)
- 1862 - Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat an educator (d. 1947)
- 1862 - James McGhee, Scots fitbawer (d. 1941)
- 1863 - William Adamson, Scots tred unionist an politeecian (d. 1936)
- 1891 - Max Ernst, German penter (d. 1976)
- 1895 - Jack Smith, Scots fitbawer (d. 1946)
- 1914 - Alec Guinness, Inglis actor (d. 2000)
- 1923 - G. Spencer-Brown, Inglis polymath (d. 2016)
- 1926 - Jack Brabham, Australian racin driver (d. 2014)
- 1928 - Serge Gainsbourg, French sangster an actor (d. 1991)
- 1939 - Marvin Gaye, American sangster (d. 1984)
- 1940 - Penelope Keith, Inglis actress
- 1946 - Sue Townsend, Inglis writer (d. 2014)
- 1960 - Linford Christie, Inglis athlete
- 1962 - Clark Gregg, American actor, screenwriter an director
- 1966 - Teddy Sheringham, Inglis fitbawer
- 1977 - Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor
- 1982 - David Ferrer, Spainyie tennis player
- 1985 - Gordon Aikman, Scots ALS campaigner (d. 2017)
- 1985 - Thom Evans, Scots rugby union player
- 1986 - Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch fitbawer
- 1986 - R3hab (Fadil El Ghoul), Dutch DJ an electronic muisic producer
- 1991 - Quavo (Quavious Marshall), American sangwriter, rapper an hip hop producer, memmer o Migos
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- 1502 - Arthur Tudor, son o Henry VII o Ingland (b. 1486)
- 1657 - Ferdinand III, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
- 1742 - James Douglas, Scots medicinar an anatomist (b. 1675)
- 1793 - Colin Macfarquhar, Scots prenter (b. 1745?)
- 1821 - James Gregory, Scots physeecian an clessicist (b. 1753)
- 1872 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)
- 1910 - William McTaggart, Scots penter (b. 1835)
- 1914 - Paul Heyse, German writer (b. 1830)
- 1928 - Theodore William Richards, American pheesical chemist (b. 1868)
- 1930 - George Watt, Scots botanist (b. 1851)
- 1974 - Georges Pompidou, Preses o Fraunce (b. 1911)
- 1995 - Hannes Alfvén, Swadish pheesicist (b. 1908)
- 2005 - Pape John Paul II (b. 1920)
- 2015 - Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director (b. 1908)
- 2015 - Robert H. Schuller, American religious leader (b. 1926)
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- Preen-tail Day
- Internaitional Childer's Beuk Day
- Warld Autism Awareness Day
- Malvinas Day (Argentinae)
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