April 15.—The French Chamber of Deputies adopts final clause of second section of bill separating state and church.
April 16.—General strike on all railroads in Italy.
Henry White, the new Ambassador to Italy, is received by King Victor Emmanuel.
Laborers on sugar plantations in Porto Rico strike.
April 17.—Plans for the extension of zemstvo governments to Siberia and Finland have been inaugurated by the Czar of Russia.
April 18.—Negotiations begun for new treaty between Germany and China.
Fights between strikers and soldiers at Limoges, France. Three strikers killed and ninety-eight soldiers wounded.
Troops fire on Italian railway strikers, killing three and wounding many.
Russian Government gives large order for American submarine boats.
Kaleieff, the assassin of Grand Duke Sergius, sentenced to death.