* April 12 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia ( b. 1609 )

For three months in early 1609, February, March and April all was well at Jamestown with many dwellings built, acres of land cleared and much other work done.

* April 29-Luc d ' Achery, Maurist librarian and author of text-critical editions of medieval manuscripts ( born 1609 )

* April 2-Paul Fleming, poet ( born 1609 )

They did lead however to conclusion of the Twelve Years ' Truce in Antwerp on 9 April 1609.

Following the conclusion of the Twelve Years ' Truce in April 1609, he was greatly concerned with the position of Catholicism in the Republic.

On April 4, 1609, Henry Hudson, an English explorer in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, departed Amsterdam in command of the ship Halve Maen.

Adriaen ( Aerjan ) Block ( c. 1567 – April 27, 1627 ( buried )) was a Dutch private trader and navigator who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson.

John Clarke ( 8 October 1609 – 20 April 1676 ) was a medical doctor, Baptist minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas.

Philip grudgingly accepted and the Truce was signed at Antwerp on 9 April 1609, marking the official recognition by Spain of the Republic as a diplomatic entity " as if " it were a sovereign state.

Immediately after the expiration of the Truce in April 1621, all Dutch ships were ordered out of Spanish ports and the stringent trade embargoes of before 1609 were renewed.

* 1609 ( April 5 ) daimyō ( Lord ) of Satsuma in southern Kyūshū conquers the kingdom.

Charles de l ' Écluse, L ' Escluse, or Carolus Clusius ( Arras, February 19, 1526 – Leiden, April 4, 1609 ), seigneur de Watènes, was a Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.

In 1606 Allegri was maestro di cappella of the church of Santa Maria at Spello, and from September 1609 until April 1610 served in the same role at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome.

On 14 April 1609, Skopin-Shuisky left Novgorod with 12, 000 Swedish soldiers under the command of Jacob De la Gardie to save the Russian throne.

William was baptised on April 23, 1609.

Luc d ' Achery ( 1609, Saint Quentin in Picardy – 29 April 1685, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris ) was a learned French Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Maur, a specialist in the study and publication of medieval manuscripts.

on 21 April 1609, entered the Middle Temple, where he was called to the bar.

For two years he studied at the Irish seminary of Salamanca, entering the Society of Jesus, 15 April 1609.

Paul Fleming, also spelt Flemming ( October 5, 1609 – April 2, 1640 ), was a German physician and poet.

The key keeper: A masque for the opening of Britain's Burse, April 19, 1609.

Mark Kerr ( or Ker ), 1st Earl of Lothian ( 1553 – April 8, 1609 ) was a Scottish nobleman and politician.

Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar ( 6 April 1609 – 23 April 1678 ) was a son of Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar, and Gertrude Sadleir, daughter of Sir Thomas Sadleir of Standon, Hertfordshire

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

* April 1 is the first day of Japanese fiscal year.

* Easter, or Resurrection Day ( Christians )-celebrated the First Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox, near March 21st ( between March 22 and April 25 )

* Opening Day – first Sunday in April

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

He aimed the cannon that fired the first return shot in answer to the Confederate bombardment on April 12, 1861.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.

Ontario celebrates Arbor Week from the last Friday in April to the first Sunday in May.

On the first Arbor Day, April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were planted.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

* Earliest day on which First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti can fall, while April 25 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Thursday after April 18.

The marriage took place on 30 April or 16 October 1325 and was a purely political maneuver to strengthen the first Polish – Lithuanian coalition against the Teutonic Knights.

The first public performance was given by Beethoven himself, Ignaz Schuppanzigh ( violin ) and Josef Linke ( cello ) at the Viennese hotel Zum römischen Kaiser on 11 April 1814, as his deafness continued to encroach upon his ability as a performer.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

Due to the Anglo-Boer War, the first census of Bechuanaland Protectorate, originally set to occur in 1901, took place on 17 April 1904.