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338 Events for 'August 4' in the Database.

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08/04/1060 Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52
Type: Death
08/04/1181 Supernova seen in Cassiopia
Type: Event
08/04/1204 Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered
Type: Death
08/04/1265 Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort
Type: Event
08/04/1265 Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle
Type: Death
08/04/1306 V clav III, last Premysliden-king of Bohemia (1305-06), murdered
Type: Death
08/04/1347 English troops conquer Ft Calais
Type: Event
08/04/1351 Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English
Type: Event
08/04/1430 Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26
Type: Death
08/04/1476 Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded
Type: Death
08/04/1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer
Type: Birth
08/04/1526 Juan Sebasti…n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
Type: Death
08/04/1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
Type: Event
08/04/1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies
Type: Death
08/04/1578 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle
Type: Death
08/04/1578 Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
Type: Death
08/04/1578 Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed
Type: Event
08/04/1584 John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71
Type: Death
08/04/1598 London's head office of Hanze closed
Type: Event
08/04/1598 William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77
Type: Death
08/04/1633 George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60
Type: Death
08/04/1636 Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil
Type: Event
08/04/1639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58
Type: Death
08/04/1664 Louis Lully, composer
Type: Birth
08/04/1666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St Christopher; thousands die
Type: Event
08/04/1666 Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
Type: Death
08/04/1666 Sea battle between Netherlands and England
Type: Event
08/04/1667 Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer/Luthers pi‰tist
Type: Birth
08/04/1687 Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS]
Type: Birth
08/04/1693 Dom Perignon invents champagne
Type: Event
08/04/1695 French garrison of surrenders to Willem III
Type: Event
08/04/1704 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
Type: Event
08/04/1705 Vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer
Type: Birth
08/04/1708 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77
Type: Death
08/04/1712 Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27
Type: Death
08/04/1730 Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England
Type: Event
08/04/1731 Giuseppe Colla, composer
Type: Birth
08/04/1735 Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press)
Type: Event
08/04/1748 Maximilian Stadler, composer
Type: Birth
08/04/1753 George Washington becomes a master mason
Type: Event
08/04/1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor (modern pencil)
Type: Birth
08/04/1760 Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia
Type: Event
08/04/1776 Wenzel Sedlak, composer
Type: Birth
08/04/1776 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Prol‚gomŠnes)
Type: Birth
08/04/1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
Type: Event
08/04/1789 French National Meeting ending feudal system
Type: Event
08/04/1790 US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
Type: Event
08/04/1791 Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova
Type: Event
08/04/1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
Type: Birth
08/04/1799 Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer
Type: Birth

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