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'''April''' is the fourth [[:en:month|month]] of the year in the [[:en:Gregorian calendar|Gregorian calendar]], and one of four months with a length of 30 [[days]]. April was originally the second month of the [[:en:Roman calendar|Roman calendar]], before January and February were added by King [[Numa Pompilius]] about 700 BC. It became the fourth month of the calendar year (the year when twelve months are displayed in order) during the time of the [[:en:decemviri|decemviri]] about 450 BC, when it also was given 29 days. The derivation of the name ([[Latin]] ''Aprilis'') is uncertain. The traditional etymology from the Latin ''aperire'', "to open," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open," is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ?νοιξι? (opening) for spring. Since most of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to [[Venus (mythology)|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 Greek name [[Aphrodite]] (''Aphros''), or from the [[:en:Etruscan language|Etruscan]] name ''Apru''. [[Jacob Grimm]] suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, ''Aper'' or ''Aprus''.

The [[:en:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxons]] called April ''Oster-monath'' or ''Eostur-monath'', the period sacred to ''Eostre'' or ''Ostara'', the pagan Saxon goddess of spring, from whose name is derived the modern [[Easter]]. [[:en:Saint George's Day|Saint George's Day]] is the twenty-third of the month; and [[:en:St Mark's Eve|St Mark's Eve]], with its superstition that the ghosts of those who are doomed to die within the year will be seen to pass into the church, falls on the twenty-fourth. In China the symbolic ploughing of the earth by the emperor and princes of the blood takes place in their third month, which frequently corresponds to our April. The Finnish called this month ''Huhtikuu'', or 'Burnwood Month', when the wood for beat and burn clearing of farmland was felled.

The "days of April" (''journées d'avril'') is a name appropriated in French history to a [[July_Monarchy#April_1834_insurrections|series of insurrections]] at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of [[Louis-Philippe of France|Louis Philippe]] in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as  ''[[:fr:Monarchie de Juillet#Le procès des insurgés d'avril|Le procès des insurgés d'avril]]. 

The [[Birthday#Birthstones|birthstone]] of April is the [[diamond]] or the [[sapphire]], and the [[Birthday#Birth_flowers|birth flower]] is typically listed as either the [[Daisy]] or the [[:en:Sweet pea|Sweet pea]]. However, a few questionable online sources also cite the [[Tulip]], as well.

In ''[[The Waste Land]]'', [[T. S. Eliot]] called April "the cruellest month". 

April starts on the same day of the week as July in all years, and January in leap years.
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File:25jaarBeatrix-vlag-Oscar-Annemiek-Gerard.JPG|25 years of [[Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands]]
File:Zname Aprilsko vastanie.svg|[[1876]] - [[:Category:April Uprising|April Uprising]]
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