11 April

An Act allowing the trial to be moved to London receives royal assent.

William Palmer Executed

A Staffordshire doctor deep in racing debts, a friend's winnings at Shrewsbury, and a strychnine trial moved to London by Act of Parliament.

Booth hears Lincoln speak from the White House about extending the vote to some Black men.

Lincoln Assassination Executed

Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators.

The theft is discovered, along with a note referring to the Treaty of Versailles.

Ghent Altarpiece theft Unsolved

In April 1934 a panel of van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece was stolen and held to ransom. The man who seemed to know where it was died before he could say.