Historical Events In May - 04
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1752 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1763 On this day in history franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
1769 Charles Hague, composer on May - 04.
1770 Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51 on May - 04.
1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England on this day in history.
1776 Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist on May - 04.
1777 On May - 04 charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
1780 On May - 04 american Academy of Arts &Science founded
1780 On May - 04 charles Bunbury on Diomed wins first Epsom Derby
1780 On this day in history american Academy of Arts & Science founded
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 May - 04.
1799 On this day in history 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 On May - 04 henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
1814 Bourbon reign restored in France on this day in history.
1818 Netherlands &England sign treaty against illegal slave handling on May - 04.
1818 On May - 04 netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1820 On this day in history joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
1825 The birth of Thomas Huxley, English naturalist on May - 04.
1825 On May - 04 thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
1826 Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) on May - 04.
1832 On May - 04 jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church
1834 On this day in history charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1835 On May - 04 edmund Hart Turpin, composer
1839 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio on May - 04.
1843 On this day in history great-Britain annexes Natal
1846 On May - 04 uS state of Michigan ends death penalty
1846 On May - 04 uS state Michigan ends death penalty
1847 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration on this day in history.
1847 On May - 04 nY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1851 The first major San Fransisco fire on this day in history.
1851 On May - 04 1st major SF fire
1855 Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66 on May - 04.
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