Portal:Islam/Selected anniversaries/April

• 21 April 1938 - Death of Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan.

• 1 April 1979 - Iran officially becomes an Islamic Republic after a national referendum
• 9 April 2008 - Al Jazeera reports that Libya released at least 90 members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
• 15 April 1979 - Mazhar Krasniqi (pictured at right) becomes first president for new organization Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand
• 19 April 2007 - Organization Islamic State of Iraq announces it had set up a provisional government termed "the first Islamic administration" of post-invasion Iraq