Date
April 4 is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 271 days remain until the end of the year.
On the Roman calendar, this was known as the day before the nones of April (Latin: Prid. Non. Apr.).
- 503 BC Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
- 1147 Moscow is mentioned for the first time in the historical record, when it is named as a meeting place for two princes.[1]
- 1268 A five-year ByzantineVenetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.[2]
- 1460 Basel University is founded.
- 1581 Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- 1609 Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
- 1660 Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.[3]
- 1721 Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
- 1768 In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
- 1796 Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.
- 1814 Napoleon abdicates for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.
- 1818 The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that…
