Historical Events In May - 04

1752  On May - 04 pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71   

1763  Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer on May - 04.   

1769  Charles Hague, composer on this day in history.   

1770  Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1776  Rhode Island declares independence from England on this day in history.   

1776  Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist on May - 04.   

1777  On this day in history charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer   

1780  On this day in history american Academy of Arts &Science founded   

1780  Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins first Epsom Derby on May - 04.   

1780  American Academy of Arts & Science founded on May - 04.   

1783  On this day in history herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus   

1796  Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools) on this day in history.   

1799  On May - 04 fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.   

1805  Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx NY on May - 04.   

1805  Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx on this day in history.   

1814  Bourbon reign restored in France on this day in history.   

1818  On May - 04 netherlands &England sign treaty against illegal slave handling   

1818  On May - 04 netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling   

1820  Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack on this day in history.   

1825  On this day in history the birth of Thomas Huxley, English naturalist   

1825  On May - 04 thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist   

1826  On this day in history frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)   

1832  Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church on this day in history.   

1834  On May - 04 charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean   

1835  On this day in history edmund Hart Turpin, composer   

1839  On May - 04 the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio   

1843  On May - 04 great-Britain annexes Natal   

1846  US state of Michigan ends death penalty on this day in history.   

1846  US state Michigan ends death penalty on May - 04.   

1847  On this day in history new York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration   

1847  NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration on this day in history.   

1851  The first major San Fransisco fire on this day in history.   

1851  1st major SF fire on May - 04.   

1855  Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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1006  On this day in history birth of abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)   

1008  Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088) was born on May - 04.   

1008  King Henry I of France (d. 1060) was born on May - 04.   

1611  On May - 04 birth of carlo Rainaldi, composer   

1631  On this day in history birth of mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England   

1635  Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies) was born on this day in history.   

1654  On this day in history birth of kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)   

1655  Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder was born on this day in history.   

1436  Death of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s) on this day in history.   

1471  On May - 04 death of edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)   

1506  On May - 04 death of husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)   

1519  On this day in history death of lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)   

1566  Death of Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490) on this day in history.   

1594  Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1604  Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71 on May - 04.   

1605  Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 on this day in history.