SomeFacts | March 4

On this day - March 4

51 — Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps ...

306 — Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.

581 — Yang Jian declares himself Emperor Wen of Sui, ending the ...

852 — Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the ...

938 — Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of ...

1152 — Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.

1238 — The Battle of the Sit River begins two centuries of Mongol ...

1351 — Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.

1386 — Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.

1461 — Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is ...

1493 — Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, ...

1519 — Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec ...

1628 — The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.

1665 — English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands ...

1675 — John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of ...

1681 — Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area ...

1686 — After being unofficially established as a settlement in 1678, ...

1769 — Mozart departed Italy after the last of his three tours there.

1776 — American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies ...

1789 — In New York City, the first Congress of the United States ...

1790 — France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the ...

1791 — Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth ...

1794 — The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the ...

1797 — John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United ...

1804 — Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British ...

1813 — Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of ...

1814 — War of 1812: Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of ...

1837 — The city of Chicago is incorporated.

1848 — Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will ...

1849 — Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States of America ...

1861 — The first national flag of the Confederate States of America ...

1865 — U.S. politician Andrew Johnson made his drunk ...

1865 — The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of ...

1878 — Pope Leo XIII reestablishes the Catholic Church in Scotland, ...

1882 — Britain's first electric trams run in east London.

1890 — The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in ...

1899 — Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a ...

1901 — William McKinley inaugurated president for second time; ...

1908 — The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, ...

1909 — U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe ...

1913 — The United States Department of Labor is formed.

1913 — First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, ...

1917 — Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of ...

1918 — A case of influenza was recorded at Camp Funston, Kansas, ...

1933 — The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble ...

1933 — The United States Senate confirms Frances Perkins as United ...

1933 — Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd President of ...

1941 — World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore ...

1943 — World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first ...

1943 — World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west ...

1944 — World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins ...

1946 — Field Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim, the 6th president of ...

1955 — An order to protect the endangered Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa ...

1957 — The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing ...

1960 — The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, ...

1962 — A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after ...

1966 — In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The ...

1966 — A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at ...

1970 — French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in ...

1976 — The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally ...

1977 — The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe ...

1980 — Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election ...

1985 — The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV ...

1986 — The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's ...

1990 — Lennox Sebe, President for life of the South African Bantustan ...

1990 — American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing ...

1994 — Space Shuttle program: the Space Shuttle Columbia is launched ...

1996 — A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the ...

1998 — Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The ...

2001 — BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC ...

2002 — Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers ...

2009 — The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest ...

2012 — A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in ...

2015 — At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the ...

2018 — Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned ...

2020 — Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk over the Masaya ...