Events on Mar 4

• 1152Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German King
• 1461Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English Queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as King of England
• 1540Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
• 1570King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
• 1611George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1621Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
• 1665English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
• 1675John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
• 1681King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
• 1699Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
• 1741English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
• 17741st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
• 17891st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
• 17911st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
• 1791President Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
• 1791Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
• 1792Oranges introduced to Hawaii
• 1793French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth
• 1797John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US
• 1798Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
• 18011st President inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
• 1809Madison becomes 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes
• 1825John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President
• 18261st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts
• 1829Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President
• 1829Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball
• 1837City of Chicago incorporates
• 1837Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th President
• 1837Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
• 1841Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison

Born on Mar 4

• 1394Henry the Navigator: Prince / sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery
• 1492Francesco de Layolle: Composer
• 1678Antonio Vivaldi: Venice, Italy -- Baroque violin virtuoso / composer (4 Seasons)
• 1719Aert Schouman: Dutch bird / portrait painter
• 1742Johann Heinrich Egli: Composer
• 1747Casimir Pulaski: Count / American Revolutionary War General
• 1754Benjamin Waterhouse: Physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
• 1754Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain: Composer
• 1757Ignaz Malzat: Composer
• 1765Charles Dibdin: England, United Kingdom -- Composer / author (Sea Songs) / actor
• 1766Emanuel ADMJ: French historian (Napoleon)
• 1773Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges: Composer
• 1782Johann Wyss: Switzerland -- Folklorist / writer (Swiss Family Robinson)
• 1789Pavel P Gagarin: Russ monarch
• 1798John Joseph Abercrombie: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877
• 1813Wijnand J J Nuijen: Romantic / water colors painter (Wrecked)
• 1819Charles Oberthur: Composer
• 1826John Buford: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
• 1828Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton: Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
• 1834Peter Nicolai von Wilm: Composer
• 1835Giovanni Schiaparelli: Italy -- Astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
• 1838Paul Lacome: Composer
• 1841Kristian Mandrup Elster: Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl)
• 1844Josip Jurcic: Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
• 1862Robert Emden: Switzerland -- Geo / astro physics (Emden-polytroop)
• 1875Alberto Vaccari: Italian Jesuit / Old Testament Scholar / interpreter
• 1875Enrique Larreta [E R Maza]: Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
• 1875Suze Groeneweg: 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
• 1877Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike: Composer
• 1879Bernhard Kellermann: Writer

Died on Mar 4

• 1172Stephan III: King of Hungary (1162-72)
• 1484Kazimierz [the Saint]: Polish ruler / saint, dies at 25
• 1615Hans von Aachen: German painter
• 1617Arcangelo Crivelli: Composer, dies at 70
• 1793Isaac Ouwater: Amsterdam Painter / cartoonist, dies at 44
• 1794Henri D count de Larochejacquelin: Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
• 1804Karl Leopold Rollig: Composer
• 1805Jean-Baptiste Greuze: French painter, dies at 79
• 1831Georg Michael Telemann: Composer, dies at 82
• 1839Ignace Antoine Ladurner: Pianist / composer, dies at 72
• 1851Michael Henkel: Composer, dies at 70
• 1852Nikolai Gogol: Writer, dies at 43
• 1864Thomas Starr King: Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
• 1866Alexander Campbell: Irish / US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
• 1876Alfred Holmes: Composer, dies at 38
• 1877Hendrik E van Rijgersma: Dutch Governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
• 1883Alexander H Stephens: VP Confederate States, dies at 71
• 1888Amos Bronson Alcott: US theory / Poet (Table Talk), dies at 88
• 1903Joseph H Shorthouse: English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
• 1916Franz Marc: German Painter / co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36
• 1922Bert Williams: Famous black, dies at 46 in New York City
• 1925Moritz Moszkowski: Polish / German composer, dies at 70
• 1933Willie Walker: US jazz singer / guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
• 1936Ruben Mattias Liljefors: Composer, dies at 64
• 1941Edoardo Mascheroni: Composer, dies at 81
• 1942Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg: Composer, dies at 62
• 1943Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis: Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
• 1943Pieter C Boutens: Dutch Poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73
• 1948Antonin Artaud: French Poet / actor (Napoleon), dies at 51
• 1953Sergei S Prokoviev: Russian Composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61

Historical events on March 5

• 11793rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
• 1461Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
• 1496English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
• 1528Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
• 1558Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
• 1579Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht
• 16231st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
• 1651South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
• 1684Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
• 17431st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
• 1746Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
• 17501st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York City
• 1760Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
• 1766Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French
• 1770Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a US Senator (Mississippi)
• 1770Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom
• 1783King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
• 1795Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
• 1795Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
• 1820Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
• 1821Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
• 1836Mexico attacks Alamo
• 1836Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
• 1845Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
• 1849Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President
• 1856Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
• 1856Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
• 1862Union troops under Brigadier General Wright occupy Fernandina Florida
• 18641st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge
• 1868Stapler patented in England by C H Gould

Born on March 5

• 1324David II Bruce: King of Scotland (1331..71)
• 1326Louis I [the Great]: King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
• 1512Gerardus Mercator: Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer / mapmaker
• 1574William Oughtred: England, United Kingdom -- Mathematician / inventor (slide rule)
• 1585Johan Georg I: Elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)
• 1637John van der Heyden: Dutch painter / inventor (fire extinguisher)
• 1658Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac: French colonial Governor of America
• 1668Francesco Gasparini: Composer
• 1733Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli]: Italian dancer / choreographer
• 1746Jacob Wallenberg: Swedish writer / naval chaplain
• 1748William Shield: Composer
• 1751Jan Krtitel Kuchar: Composer
• 1774Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse: Composer
• 1794Jacques Babinet: French physicist / mathematician / astronomer
• 1805Theodore Labarre: Composer
• 1817Austen H Layard: British archaeologist / diplomat
• 1824Elisha Harris: United States -- Physician / founder of the American Public Health Association
• 1824James Merritt Ives: Lithographer (Currier & Ives)
• 1825John Dunovant: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
• 1825Joseph Albert: German photographer (albertotype)
• 1828Johann Gungl: Composer
• 1840Constance Fenimore Woolson: New Hampshire, United States -- Writer (Jupiter Lights)
• 1843William F Sudds: Composer
• 1845Alfonse Hasselmans: Composer
• 1850Daniel Brink Towner: Composer
• 1852Isabella Gregory: Ireland -- Writer / playwright (Golden Apple)
• 1853Arthur W Foote: Salem, Massachusetts -- Organist / composer (Suite for Strings in E)
• 1853Howard Pyle: Illustrator / painter / author (King Stork)
• 1868Prosper Poullet: Belgian viscount / jurist / minister
• 1869Michael von Faulhaber: Cardinal / Archbishop of Munich

Died on March 5

• 0254Lucius I: Bishop of Rome (253-54)
• 0254St Lucius I: Pope (253-54)
• 1574Philip of Saint-Aldegonde: Flem Viceroy Holland / Zealand / Utrecht
• 1605Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini]: Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69
• 1625James I (VI): King of England (1603-25) / Poet / author, dies at 58
• 1644Louise Juliana: Countess of Nassau, dies at 73
• 1732Joseph-Francois Salomon: Composer, dies at 82
• 1770Crispus Attuks: Slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
• 1778Thomas A Arne: English Composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
• 1795Josef Reicha: Composer, dies at 42
• 1827Alessandro Volta: Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82
• 1853Georg A Kestner: German art collector / diplomat, dies at 75
• 1873Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor: Composer, dies at 34
• 1876Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult [Daniel Stern]: French author, dies at 70
• 1893Hippolyte Taine: French philosopher / historian, dies at 64
• 1893Richard Samuel Hughes: Composer, dies at 37
• 1895Nikolai Leskow: Writer, dies at 64
• 1904Alfred von Waldersee: Prussian Field Marshal / Chief of Staff, dies at 71
• 1919Jozef Surzynski: Composer, dies at 67
• 1932Takuma Dan: Japanese Baron / financier / industrial, murdered
• 1941Ludwig Quidde: German Historian / politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82
• 1944Max Jacob: French writer, dies in Nazi concentration camp at 67
• 1947Alfredo Casella: Italian Composer / conductor (La Giara), dies at 63
• 1952Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov: Composer, dies at 63
• 1953Josef V Stalin: Soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73
• 1953Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev: Composer, dies at 61
• 1954Julian Lowell Coolidge: Mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
• 1956Erich Itor Kahn: Composer, dies at 50
• 1962Anne C Veth: Dutch cartoonist / art critic, dies at 82
• 1962Otakar Jeremias: Composer, dies at 69

Events on Mar 6

• 1079Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
• 1205Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
• 1323Treaty of Paris
• 1447Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
• 1460Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa
• 1521Magellan discovers Guam
• 1579Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
• 1590Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
• 1628Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
• 1646Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
• 1664King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
• 1665Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
• 1714Peace of Rastatt - French Emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
• 1728Spain and England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
• 17751st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
• 18081st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
• 1810Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
• 1816Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
• 1831Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy
• 1834Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
• 18363,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
• 1855Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet
• 1857Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
• 1861Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
• 1862Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
• 1865Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
• 1865President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball
• 1882Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself King
• 18861st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
• 18961st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"

Born on Mar 6

• 1405Johan II: King of Castille
• 1459Jacob Fugger: German banker / Merchant
• 1483Francesco Guicciardini: Italian attorney / President of Romagna
• 1492Jean Luis Vives: Spanish theory / humanist / Reformer
• 1495Luigi Alamanni: Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)
• 1616Malachias Siebenhaar: Composer
• 1619Cyrano de Bergerac: Famous nose, playwright (Voyage to the Moon)
• 1698John Alberti: Dutch theologist / philologist
• 1710Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli: Composer
• 1740Giovanni Meli: Siclian poet (Buccolica)
• 1763Jean Xavier Lefevre: Composer
• 1765Jan Kops: Dutch agronomist / vicar
• 1779Philipp Roth: Composer
• 1785Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski: Composer
• 1791Anna Claypoole Peale: Painted miniatures
• 1793Bernhard Joseph Klein: Composer
• 1812Aaron Lufkin Dennison: Father of American watchmaking
• 1820Horatio Gouverneur Wright: Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1831Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh: German theologist (Home Mission)
• 1831Philip Henry Sheridan: Albany, New York -- Major General (Union Army)
• 1835Charles Ewing: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
• 1835Ludwik Grossman: Composer
• 1843Artur Napoleao dos Santos: Composer
• 1844Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov: Composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3 / 18)
• 1852Joseph Bayer: Composer
• 1870Oscar Straus: Vienna, Austria -- Composer (Ein Walzertraum)
• 1882Guy Kibbee: El Paso, Texas -- Actor (Big Shot)
• 1885Ring Lardner: United States -- Writer (You Know Me Al)
• 1887Henri Gagnon: Composer
• 1890Fernand Ansseau: Belgian operator / theory (Orfeo)

Died on Mar 6

• 0766Chrodegang: Church Reformer / Bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
• 1583Zacharias Ursinus: German Theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48
• 1615Pieter Both: Dutch Admiral / 1st Governor-General (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns
• 1616Francis Beaumont: Elizabethan playwright
• 1674Johann Paul Schor: German barok painter, dies at 58
• 1720Pieter van Flowers: Flemish painter, buried at 63
• 1753Gerhardus Havingha: Composer, dies at 56
• 1754Henry Pelham: English Premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57
• 1836Davy Crockett: US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49
• 1851Alexander Aliabiev: Composer, dies at 63
• 1854Caspar GC Reinwardt: German / Dutch biologist, dies at 80
• 1867Wiktor Kazynski: Composer, dies at 54
• 1888Louisa May Alcott: US Author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55
• 1900Gottlieb Daimler: Designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
• 1917Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom: Premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
• 1924Meyer E van Beem: Actor (Moittige Janus), dies at 85
• 1932John Philip Sousa: US Composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
• 1936Josef Stransky: Composer, dies at 63
• 1936Rubin Goldmark: Composer, dies at 63
• 1937Frank Vosper: Actor / writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37
• 1939[Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann: German mathematician, dies at 86
• 1941Gutzon Borglum: Sculptor (Mt Rushmore), dies at 73
• 1941John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum: Sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73
• 1941Leen Schijvenschuurder: Dutch February strike leader, executed
• 1945Jan Thijssen: Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
• 1945Rudolph Karel: Composer, dies at 64
• 1947Ludwig Weber: Composer, dies at 55
• 1950Lew Lehr: Comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54
• 1951Ivor Novello: Actor / writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend), dies at 58
• 1954Jan Kalf: Dutch literature / art historian, dies at 80