In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Short Parliament.

# Sigismund ( 20 November 1592 – 30 April 1640 )

* April 27 – John Trenchard, English statesman ( b. 1640 )

April 25: The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar, by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom ( 1566 – 1640 ).

* April 16 – Aphra Behn, English author ( b. 1640 )

* April 17 – John Ford, English dramatist and poet ( d. 1640 )

* April 3 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician ( b. 1640 )

* April 21 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer ( b. 1640 )

* April 30 – Robert Plot, British naturalist ( b. 1640 )

Uriel da Costa (; c. 1585 – April 1640 ) or Uriel Acosta ( from the Latin form of his Portuguese surname, Costa, or da Costa ) was a philosopher and skeptic from Portugal.

Jørgen Mohr ( Latinised Georg ( ius ) Mohr ) ( April 1, 1640 – January 26, 1697 ) was a Danish mathematician.

Aphra Behn ( baptised 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689 ) was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers.

In the Short Parliament of 13 April to 4 May 1640 he made one of the speeches that led to its dissolution and " appeared to be the most leading man " according to Clarendon.

* On Grievances in the Reign of Charles I ( Speech delivered 17 April 1640 )

In January 1640, in accordance with the king's new policy of moderation, Strode was released and on 13 April took his seat as MP for Bere Alston in the Short Parliament.

Following the end of the Eleven Years Tyranny Holles was elected MP for Dorchester for the Short Parliament in April 1640 and for the Long Parliament in November 1640.

In April 1640, Haselrig was elected Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in the Short Parliament He was re-elected MP for Leicestershire for the Long Parliament in November 1640.

In April 1640, Hyde was elected Member of Parliament for both Shaftesbury and Wootton Bassett in the Short Parliament and chose to sit for Wootton Bassett.

* 1 December 1640 – 23 April 1662: Her Highness The Infanta Dona Catarina

The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640 during the reign of King Charles I of England, so called because it lasted only three weeks.

* List of MPs elected to the English parliament in 1640 ( April )

In April 1640 he was elected MP for Buckinghamshire in the Short Parliament and was re-elected MP for Buckinghamshire for the Long Parliament in November 1640.

Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.

:* Sir Herbert Broadley ( UK ) ( acting ): April 1956 – November 1956.

On 29 April 2008, two teens Ryan Herbert and Brendan Harris were convicted for the murder of Lancaster and given life sentences, three others were given lesser sentences for the assault on her boyfriend Robert Maltby.

On April 6, 1969, Wally Herbert and companions Allan Gill, Roy Koerner and Kenneth Hedges of the British Trans-Arctic Expedition became the first men to reach the North Pole on foot ( albeit with the aid of dog teams and airdrops ).

* April 4 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat ( b. 1909 )

* April 26 – George Herbert Mead, American philosopher ( b. 1863 )

* April 2 – Herbert Mills, " Mills Brothers " tenor ( d. 1989 )

* April 14 – In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in Lansing, Kansas.

* April 8 – Herbert Jennings, American zoologist ( d. 1947 )

* April 5 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations ( b. 1866 )

* April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover ( then the Secretary of Commerce ), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.

* April 3 – George Herbert, English poet and orator ( d. 1633 )

* April 14 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral ( b. c. 1648 )

* April 27 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher ( d. 1903 )

But through the diplomatic errors of Charles ' Vicar, Herbert of Orléans, Messina, too, revolted on 28 April 1282.

The song itself was first performed on 6 April 1895 by Sir Herbert Ramsay at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton, Queensland.

When that was not forthcoming, he and three other Welsh Liberals ( David Alfred Thomas, Herbert Lewis and Frank Edwards ) refused the whip on 14 April 1892 but accepted Lord Rosebery's assurance and rejoined the official Liberals on 29 May.

In April 1930, test pilot Herbert " Hub " Fahy and his wife Claire hit a stump upon landing, flipping their plane and mortally wounding Hub without injuring Claire.

Herbert Bayer ( April 5, 1900 – September 30, 1985 ) was an Austrian American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental & interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognized as the last living member of the Bauhaus and was instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.

: Operating from Herbert Smart Airport, Augusta, Georgia, 11 April 1942 – 18 August 1942

His successor was Herbert von Karajan, who led the orchestra from 1955 until his resignation in April 1989, only months before his death.

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was opened in Stratford upon Avon on 23 April 1879, with the New Shakespeare Company ( now the Royal Shakespeare Company ); and Herbert Beerbohm Tree founded an Academy of Dramatic Art at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1904.

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon ( 26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923 ) was an English aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

Herbert Spencer ( 27 April 1820-8 December 1903 ) was an English philosopher.

Herbert Wohlfarth began his naval career in April 1933.