Timeline April 1882

Events in April 1882 4

• 1803 – 1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Died 27 April 1882, aged 78 Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century. His essays on self-reliance and individualism shaped American literary and philosophical thought. He died at his home in Concord, Massachusetts.
• 1809 – 1882 Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species Naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
• 1828 – 1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Pre-Raphaelite · England Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 – April 9, 1882) was an English painter and poet, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His intensely romantic paintings of women had an enormous influence on Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
• 1847 – 1882 Jesse James (1847-1882) Died 3 April 1882, aged 34 James was an American outlaw who led a gang notorious for robbing banks, stagecoaches, and trains across the Midwest after the Civil War. He was shot dead in his home in St. Joseph, Missouri, by gang member Robert Ford, who sought a reward for his capture. His death made him a figure of enduring American folklore.