Before 1600
Inspired by a Goguryeo assault into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of the Sui Dynasty rallied his youngest son Yang Liang and co-prime minister Gao Jiong to spearhead a Chinese military campaign against Goguryeo in 598. Launched during the Manchurian wet season, the campaign
Prince Edward, England’s future King Edward I, won handily at the Battle of Evesham by 1265, during the Second Barons’ War. Killing Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, his men routed the disobedient barons, therefore sparing many of their adherents.
James Douglas led a bold attack into Weardale in 1327, just avoiding a fatal run through with Edward III of England.
In 1578, Moroccan soldiers routed the Portuguese at the Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir. Following the death of Portuguese King Sebastian, his elderly uncle Cardinal Henry became the successor and caused a succession issue.
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Though the real discovery of sparkling wine is debatable, Dom Perignon is usually credited with creating champagne in 1693. His methods really helped the drink to be perfectly refined.
Signed in 1701, the Great Peace of Montreal marked the end of hostilities between different First Nations nations and New France.
Following Archduke Charles, an English and Dutch fleet under Admiral Sir George Rooke seized Gibraltar in 1704, during the War of the Spanish Succession.
On August 4, 1783, Mount Asama erupted in Japan in the Tenmei cycle. About 1,400 people died and a famine brought about by this terrible tragedy claimed 20,000 more lives.
Through the National Constituent Assembly, France outlawed feudalism on August 4, 1789.
The Revenue Cutter Service, forerunner of the United States Coast Guard, was founded in 1790 under a tariff statute.
Completing the Ottoman–Habsburg wars, the Treaty of Sistova was signed on August 4, 1791.
Leading the French Army of Italy to triumph in the Battle of Lonato during the French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon in 1796
Published first as a weekly newspaper on August 4, 1821, the Saturday Evening Post was first
Japan adopted the Hinomaru as official flag for use on ships in 1854.
Established in Martin in 1863, Matica slovenská concentrated on Slovak cultural and scientific interests.
Under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, the United States 7th Cavalry clashed with Cheyenne and Lakota people close to the Tongue River in 1873.
Having spent over 60 years in captivity, Granny, a sea anemone, passed away in Edinburgh in 1887.
After 32 city blocks were burned by the Great Fire of Spokane in 1889, a major rebuilding effort resulted.
Found dead in their Fall River, Massachusetts house in 1892 were Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother. A year later Lizzie Borden was tried and found not guilty.
#### 1901–today
While the United States announced its neutrality, Belgium and the British Empire declared war on Germany in reaction to her invasion of Belgium on August 4, 1914.
Under the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive on August 4, 1915, the German 12th Army took Warsaw in World War I.
Mikhail Frunze declared triumph over the Makhnovshchina in 1921 in the Bolshevik–Makhnovist struggle.
In 1924 Mexico and the Soviet Union developed diplomatic ties.
Establishing the 4th of August Regime, Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metroxas sacked parliament and suspended the constitution in 1936.
Following a tip-off from a Dutch informer, Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family were arrested August 4, 1944.
Under emergency law implemented in 1944, the Finnish Parliament chose Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as President of Finland.
On August 4, 1946, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake rocked northern Dominican Republic, killing 100 persons and rendering 20,000 homeless.
Japan’s Supreme Court first opened business in 1947.
Having vanished on June 21, 1964, civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were found dead in Mississippi on August 4, 1964. The U.S. warships USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy erroneous reported attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin that same day.
On August 4, 1965 the Cook Islands established their self-governing constitution.
Secret peace talks between American ambassador Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese official Xuân Thuỷ started in Paris in 1969, but they finally failed.
Ugandan President Idi Amin started deport Asian-born British citizens on August 4, 1972.
In 1974, a bomb went off on the Italian Italicus Express train, killing twelve people and injuring twenty-two more.
Seeking the freedom of their colleagues, the Japanese Red Army seized over fifty hostages at the AIA Building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1975.
Jimmy Carter signed the United States Department of Energy into being in 1977.
Following his coup d’état in 1983, Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo’s Republic of Upper Volta was renamed Burkina Faso.
Reversing the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, the Federal Communications Commission eliminated the mandate for fair coverage of divisive topics.
Beginning in Croatia in 1995, Operation Storm
When 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut Port on August 4, 2020, at least 220 people died and over 5,000 more were injured.
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