Page 2: Historical Events In May - 04

1752  On this day in history pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71   

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 May - 04 rhode Island declares independence from England   

1776  On May - 04 johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist   

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

1780  On May - 04 american Academy of Arts &Science founded   

1780  Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins first Epsom Derby on this day in history.   

1780  On this day in history american Academy of Arts & Science founded   

1783  Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus on this day in history.   

1796  On May - 04 horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)   

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  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  On May - 04 netherlands &England sign treaty against illegal slave handling   

1818  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1825  Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist on May - 04.   

1826  On May - 04 frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)   

1832  On this day in history 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 May - 04 edmund Hart Turpin, composer   

1839  On this day in history the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio   

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  NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration on this day in history.   

1851  The first major San Fransisco fire on this day in history.   

1851  1st major SF fire on May - 04.   

1855  On this day in history camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66   

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1006  Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat) was born on May - 04.   

1008  Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088) was born on this day in history.   

1008  King Henry I of France (d. 1060) was born on this day in history.   

1611  On May - 04 birth of carlo Rainaldi, composer   

1631  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)   

1655  Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder was born on this day in history.   

1436  Death of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s) on May - 04.   

1471  Death of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1594  Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1604  Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

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