March 4 in History

Named Emperor by Conrad III to end the feud between the Guelph & Ghibelline

Gives Tancred the sword of Arthur King of the Britains as a symbol of their alliance

Tancred reciprocates by giving Richard 4 ships & 15 galleys. Gives Tancred the sword of Arthur King of the Britains as a symbol of their alliance

Knights Alexander & renews his 1209 agreement with William of Scots

Makes an Oath to the Pope as a Crusader to gain the support of Innocent III

Dismissd as Captain of Calais bt Henry VI

Succeeds as King of England. Declared King of England by Parliament

Concludes an alliance with France against England

Returns to Palos where Colombus fleet had set out before landing in America

Henry VIIIs 2nd Parliament closes

Hohenlohe reached Breda with cavalry as the surprised defenders abandoned resistance.

De Heraugiere's men emerged from the barge and surprised the castle garrison before dawn.

Vere accompanied the Dutch-English force supporting Maurice's capture of Breda.

Maurice entered Breda after the peat-barge assault secured the castle and forced surrender.

Lanzavecchia's Italian garrison was surprised when Dutch soldiers emerged inside Breda Castle.

Lands at St Marys in the Scilly Isles exactly one year since leaving Oxford

Declares war on the Dutch Republic as the Second Anglo-Dutch War begins.

Becomes the first Astronomer Royal for work at Greenwich.

Orders creation of the Royal Observatory to improve navigation.

Leads Vermont as it enters the Union as the fourteenth state

Vermont becomes the fourteenth state of the Union

Leads the coalition against Napoleon & prevents Allies dealing separately with France

Appointed Foreign Minister under Lord Liverpool

Awarded the Order of the Garter

Awarded the Order of the Garter

Inaugurated President of the USA, 8th

Enacts a new centralised & absolute Austrian constitution

Enacts a new centralised & absolute Austrian constitution

Davis enters his new term as senator from Mississippi

Parliament is dissolved after The Queen agrees to Parlmerstons request

Takes his seat as a United States representative from Massachusetts.

Begins service as a Republican senator from Massachusetts.

Appointed President of the USA, Twentieth President, Garfield takes office

Begins the vice presidency that ends with Garfield's death.

Is inaugurated as the twentieth President of the United States.

Begins his presidency after winning the 1880 election.

Takes office as Vice President under President Garfield.

Inaugurated President of the USA, 22nd President

William Randolph Hearst appointed "Proprietor" of the SF Examiner newspaper

Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as 23rd President

Appointed Prime Minister of Spain

The Het Volk, including many English-speaking allies, win the election

Becomes prime minister under restored responsible government.

Forms a government supported by Afrikaner and English-speaking allies.

Appointed Prime Minister of the Transvaal

Forms the Transvaal government after Het Volk wins the election.

Becomes prime minister after Het Volk wins the Transvaal election.

Resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain

HMS Amethyst supports six minesweepers during a costly attempt to clear mines under heavy Ottoman fire.

Several trawlers are hit during minesweeping operations, demonstrating the vulnerability of the improvised sweeping force.

Nicholas abdication manifesto is made public

Issues his abdication manifesto

Michaels renunciation of the throne is made public

Nicholas abdication manifesto is made public

The Police Department is abolished

Kisses the same bible used in the inauguration of George Washington

Inaugurated Vice President of the USA

Directs Nosferatu, one of the central works of German silent horror.

Signs the Agricultural Credits Act, expanding federal credit facilities for farmers.

Signs the Classification Act, standardising federal civil-service grades and pay schedules.

Becomes a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences in Madrid.

Leaves office as Secretary of the Interior before the Teapot Dome scandal fully emerges.

Speaks on the Agricultural Rates Continuance Bill and its effect on public finance.

Uses his vice-presidential inaugural speech to attack Senate procedural obstruction.

Begins presiding over the United States Senate as Vice President.

Sworn in as Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge.

Inaugurated President of the USA

Signs a White Paper to modernize equipment & increase estimates

Rearmament of "statement relating to Defence", recognizes the need to rearm

Hitler demands from Prince Paul that German troops pass through Yugoslavia to Greece

Hitler demands from Prince Paul that German troops pass through Yugoslavia to Greece

Paul of Yugoslavia is invited to the Berghof & offered Salonika for German support

Churchill launches Operation Claymore, a naval raid against the Lofoten Islands

A commando raid destroys fish oil processing plants in Lofoton, northern Norway

Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact

A treaty of alliance, the Treaty of Dunkirk, is signed with France

A treaty of alliance, the Treaty of Dunkirk, is signed with France

Appointed Director of the Peace Corps

Appointed Director of the Peace Corps

Ne Win chairs the Revolutionary Government after abolishing parliamentary rule

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I neednt argue with that; Im right and I will be proved right. Were more popular than Jesus now. I dont know which will go first, rock n roll or Christianity"

Release Substitute as a major British single.

Releases We're Only in It for the Money, satirising contemporary counterculture and mainstream American society.

No Party wins an election majority & negotiations with the Liberals break down

New constitution formalizes BSPP one-party socialist rule

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 3rd term

Sein Win becomes Prime Minister under the new socialist constitution

Resigns as Prime Minister after coalition talks fail and Labour forms a minority government.

No Party wins an election majority & negotiations with the Liberals break down. Coalition negotiations with leaders of the Liberal Party fail & Heath resigns as Prime Minister & is replaced by Harold Wilson & a minority Labour Government

Wilson forms a Labour government committed to a Social Contract with the trade unions.

Returns to office promising a different relationship with organised labour.

Directs Kings of the Road.

Mugabe is appointed Prime Minister after ZANU-PF's election victory.

Mugabe is appointed Prime Minister following the election result.

Mugabe includes ZAPU representatives in the first independence government.

After a campaign marked by intimidation from all sides, mistrust from security forces and reports of full ballot boxes found on the road, the Shona majority is decisive in electing Mugabe to head the first Government as Prime Minister

After a campaign marked by intimidation from all sides, mistrust from security forces and reports of full ballot boxes found on the road, the Shona majority is decisive in electing Mugabe to head the first Government as Prime Minister

ZANU allies itself with the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) in the Patriotic Front (PF), the two parties adopting the names ZANU-PF and PF-ZAPU respectively, but they split after achieving majority rule.

ZANU win 57 out of 80 Common Roll seats in the new Parliament, with the 20 white seats all going to the Rhodesian Front.

ZANU-PF wins the largest share of seats in the independence election.

Mugabe begins forming Zimbabwe's first majority-rule government.

ZANU-PF wins 57 of the 80 common-roll parliamentary seats.

Directs Fitzcarraldo.

Addresses the Nation on the Iran Contra affair

Scores the late winner against Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup semi-final replay at White Hart Lane.

Presents an initiative for Arab-Israeli negotiations and transitional Palestinian self-government.

Announces he will leave the Cabinet in May & not contest the general election

Announces he will leave the Cabinet in May & not contest the general election

Begins the Sound and Vision tour, promoted as a final outing for many of his older hits.

Begins planning the massive effort to extinguish sabotaged wells.

Arrives with firefighting experts to assess Kuwait's burning oil fields.

Presents the truth commission's findings and apologizes on behalf of the state.

Obuchi is hospitalized & forced to rest

Appointed Prime Minister of Japan due to the ill health of Obuchi

Linnehan helps replace Hubble's starboard solar array with a more powerful third-generation array.

John McCain secures the 2008 US Republican Party presidential nomination after winning primary elections in Texas, Vermont, Ohio, and Rhode Island

Secures the Republican presidential nomination after further primary victories

Putin won the 2012 Russian presidential elections in the first round, with 63.6% of the vote

Responds to the shelling and Russian seizure of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Shehbaz Sharif takes the oath for his second premiership.

Gives birth to Edward, the Black Prince

Gives birth to Isabella

Birth of Christopher Russell Edward Squire, later Yes bassist and founding member.

Birth of Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish

Birth of Jason Curtis Newsted

Death of Yurii II, killed at the Battle of River Sit

Death of Muhammad Mossadeq

Yurii II is killed at the Battle of the River Sit. Mongol hordes defeat the army of Vladimir-Suzdal

Warwick proclaimed the young Yorkist leader as King Edward IV. The proclamation gained greater acceptance than Richard of York's earlier claim, as several nobles previously opposed to letting Edward's father ascend the throne viewed the Lancastrian actions as a betrayal of the legally established Accord

Crowned 3 months before the birth of her 1st son, the Black Prince

Crowned King after the Battle of Towton & founds the House of York, 1461-85