Historical Events In May - 04
Friday, 29 March 2024
1752 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71 on May - 04.
1763 On May - 04 franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
1769 On May - 04 charles Hague, composer
1770 On May - 04 christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51
1776 On May - 04 rhode Island declares independence from England
1776 Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist on this day in history.
1777 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer on May - 04.
1780 American Academy of Arts &Science founded on May - 04.
1780 On this day in history charles Bunbury on Diomed wins first Epsom Derby
1780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded on this day in history.
1783 On May - 04 herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1796 On this day in history horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
1799 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 on this day in history.
1805 On May - 04 henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx NY
1805 On May - 04 henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
1814 On this day in history bourbon reign restored in France
1818 On May - 04 netherlands &England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1818 On this day in history netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1820 Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack on May - 04.
1825 On May - 04 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 May - 04.
1834 On May - 04 charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1835 Edmund Hart Turpin, composer on this day in history.
1839 On this day in history the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
1843 Great-Britain annexes Natal on this day in history.
1846 On this day in history uS state of Michigan ends death penalty
1846 On this day in history uS state Michigan ends death penalty
1847 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration on this day in history.
1847 NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration on this day in history.
1851 The first major San Fransisco fire on May - 04.
1851 1st major SF fire on May - 04.
1855 Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66 on May - 04.
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