Portal:Oregon/Selected anniversaries/April
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- April 2, 1907 the Mail Tribune newspaper is founded in Medford.
- April 6, 1954 native Oregonian James Alger Fee is nominated to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
- April 14, 2005 the Oregon Supreme Court rules in Li & Kennedy vs. State of Oregon that Multnomah County could not issue same-sex marriage licenses.
- April 18, 1877 former state senate president and the first doctor and teacher in Portland, Ralph Wilcox, commits suicide while at work at the federal court in Portland.
- April 21, 1865 the first post office in Pendleton located in Eastern Oregon opens.
