Historical Events In May - 04

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 this day in history.   

1776  On this day in history rhode Island declares independence from England   

1776  On this day in history johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist   

1777  On May - 04 charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer   

1780  American Academy of Arts &Science founded on this day in history.   

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

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

1783  On May - 04 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  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 May - 04 bourbon reign restored in France   

1818  Netherlands &England sign treaty against illegal slave handling on this day in history.   

1818  On May - 04 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  Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist on this day in history.   

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

1832  On May - 04 jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church   

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

1835  On this day in history edmund Hart Turpin, composer   

1839  The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio on this day in history.   

1843  Great-Britain annexes Natal on May - 04.   

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  On May - 04 new York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration   

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

1851  On May - 04 the first major San Fransisco fire   

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  On May - 04 birth of khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)   

1008  On May - 04 birth of king Henry I of France (d. 1060)   

1611  On May - 04 birth of carlo Rainaldi, composer   

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  Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722) was born on this day in history.   

1655  On May - 04 birth of bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder   

1436  On May - 04 death of engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)   

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

1506  Death of Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438) on May - 04.   

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 May - 04.   

1594  On May - 04 paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62   

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

1605  On this day in history ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82