Historical Events In November - 04

1812  On November - 04 aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria)  

1816  On November - 04 william Polk Hardeman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898  

1818  Alexander Robert Lawton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 on this day in history.  

1820  On November - 04 robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870  

1823  On this day in history karel Komzak, composer  

1830  On November - 04 frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37  

1835  On this day in history lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1913  

1837  Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69 on November - 04.  

1839  On this day in history the Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.  

1841  1st wagon train arrives in California on this day in history.  

1841  Carl Tausig, composer on this day in history.  

1842  On this day in history abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill  

1842  William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874 on this day in history.  

1845  On this day in history the first nationally observed uniform election day in US  

1845  On this day in history 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US  

1846  On this day in history benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg  

1846  On this day in history gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer  

1847  Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Germ pianist/composer, dies at 38 on this day in history.  

1852  On November - 04 count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.  

1853  On November - 04 alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27  

1854  Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island on November - 04.  

1854  Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island on this day in history.  

1856  On this day in history james Buchanan elected US president  

1859  Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer on November - 04.  

1861  University of Washington founded in Seattle on November - 04.  

1862  Gatling gun patented on this day in history.  

1862  The Gatling gun patented (Richard J Gatling) on this day in history.  

1862  Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis) on November - 04.  

1862  Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes) on November - 04.  

1864  On November - 04 hMS Racehorse in the China Seas. The wreck of this ship, with the loss of a hundred lives, near Chefoo, at the southern entrance of the gulf of Pecheli, the Racehorse, 4, screw gun vessel, 200 horse power, and 695 tons, was built for the Admiralty by Messrs. Wigram and Co.,  

1864  On this day in history confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee  

1866  Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia on this day in history.  

1867  90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall on this day in history.  

1867  Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM (1944-47) on this day in history.  

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1448  King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495) was born on November - 04.  

1575  Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642) was born on November - 04.  

1587  Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised was born on November - 04.  

1590  Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter was born on this day in history.  

1640  Carlo Mannelli, composer was born on November - 04.  

1650  On November - 04 birth of william III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702)  

1656  Leonard Sailer, composer was born on this day in history.  

1661  On November - 04 birth of karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)  

0644  On November - 04 death of omar I, Arabic 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered  

1203  Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies on this day in history.  

1411  Death of Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384) on November - 04.  

1652  On November - 04 death of jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)  

1658  On November - 04 death of antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)  

1669  On November - 04 death of johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)  

1674  On November - 04 kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72  

1698  On this day in history death of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)