Page 2: Historical Events In November - 04

1812  Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria) on this day in history.   

1816  William Polk Hardeman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 on this day in history.   

1818  Alexander Robert Lawton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 on November - 04.   

1820  Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870 on this day in history.   

1823  On this day in history karel Komzak, composer   

1830  Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37 on this day in history.   

1835  Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1913 on November - 04.   

1837  Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69 on November - 04.   

1839  The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain on this day in history.   

1841  On November - 04 1st wagon train arrives in California   

1841  On November - 04 carl Tausig, composer   

1842  Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill on this day in history.   

1842  On November - 04 william Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874   

1845  On November - 04 the first nationally observed uniform election day in US   

1845  On this day in history 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US   

1846  On November - 04 benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg   

1846  On November - 04 gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer   

1847  On this day in history jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Germ pianist/composer, dies at 38   

1852  On this day in history count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.   

1853  Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27 on November - 04.   

1854  On this day in history lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island   

1854  Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island on this day in history.   

1856  On November - 04 james Buchanan elected US president   

1859  On this day in history stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer   

1861  On November - 04 university of Washington founded in Seattle   

1862  On this day in history gatling gun patented   

1862  The Gatling gun patented (Richard J Gatling) on this day in history.   

1862  On this day in history dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis)   

1862  On this day in history eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)   

1864  On this day in history hMS Racehorse in the China Seas. The wreck of this ship, with the loss of a hundred lives, near Chefoo, at the southern entrance of the gulf of Pecheli, the Racehorse, 4, screw gun vessel, 200 horse power, and 695 tons, was built for the Admiralty by Messrs. Wigram and Co.,   

1864  On this day in history confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee   

1866  On this day in history kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia   

1867  90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall on this day in history.   

1867  On this day in history tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM (1944-47)   

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1448  On this day in history birth of king Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)   

1575  On November - 04 birth of guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)   

1587  On this day in history birth of samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised   

1590  On this day in history birth of gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter   

1640  Carlo Mannelli, composer was born on this day in history.   

1650  William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702) was born on this day in history.   

1656  On November - 04 birth of leonard Sailer, composer   

1661  On November - 04 birth of karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)   

0644  Death of Omar I, Arabic 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered on November - 04.   

1203  On this day in history dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies   

1411  Death of Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384) on November - 04.   

1652  Death of Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597) on November - 04.   

1658  On this day in history death of antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)   

1669  Death of Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603) on this day in history.   

1674  Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1698  Death of Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625) on November - 04.