Page 2: Historical Events In May - 04

1752  Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1763  On May - 04 franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer   

1769  On May - 04 charles Hague, composer   

1770  Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51 on May - 04.   

1776  On May - 04 rhode Island declares independence from England   

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

1777  On May - 04 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  On May - 04 american Academy of Arts & Science founded   

1783  Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus on this day in history.   

1796  On this day in history horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)   

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  On this day in history henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx NY   

1805  On this day in history henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx   

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

1818  On this day in history 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  The birth of Thomas Huxley, English naturalist on this day in history.   

1825  On this day in history thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist   

1826  Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) on this day in history.   

1832  On this day in history jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church   

1834  Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean on May - 04.   

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  On May - 04 great-Britain annexes Natal   

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 May - 04.   

1847  On May - 04 nY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration   

1851  The first major San Fransisco fire on May - 04.   

1851  1st major SF fire on this day in history.   

1855  On this day in history camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66   

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1006  On May - 04 birth of abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)   

1008  Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088) was born on this day in history.   

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

1611  Carlo Rainaldi, composer was born on May - 04.   

1631  On May - 04 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 May - 04.   

1654  On May - 04 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 this day in history death of edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)   

1506  On this day in history death of husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)   

1519  Death of Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492) on May - 04.   

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

1594  On this day in history paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62   

1604  On May - 04 claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71   

1605  Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 on May - 04.