May 4 in History

Signs the Treaty of Lambeth with the Count of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Agrees not to make peace with Philip II of France

Joan is pledged to David Bruce as part of the peace settlement

Treaty accepts the Anglo Scottish border as it stood under Alexander III

Edward's government abandons claims to overlordship of Scotland

The treaty formally ends the First War of Scottish Independence

Randolph's diplomacy is confirmed by English parliamentary ratification

Treaty terms provide for Joan to marry David son of Robert I

Mortimer helps force through the peace with Scotland

English claims of overlordship over Scotland are abandoned by treaty

Isabella backs ratification of the treaty with Robert I

Edward's minority government accepts peace with Robert I

England recognizes Robert I and his heirs as rightful rulers of Scotland

England recognizes Scotland as a separate and independent kingdom

England recognizes Robert I and his heirs as kings of Scotland

Edward III's government recognizes Scotland as a free kingdom

Treaty terms include English agreement to return Scottish royal symbols

Treaty terms include an English promise to return the Stone of Scone

Ratifies the treaty recognizing Scottish independence and Robert I's kingship

English parliament ratifies the peace recognizing Scottish independence

English parliament ratifies the peace terms agreed at Edinburgh

Robert's kingship is recognized by the English parliament

Mortimer secures parliamentary approval for the treaty with Scotland

Robert's kingship and Scotland's independence are recognized by England

The whole of Alencons army arrives within the city of Orleans

Overuns the bastille at Saint-Loup

Lord Dunois launches an assault against the English-held fortifications around the church of St Loup, carrying her banner, Joan inspires the French army

Papal bull ratified by Alexander VI

Papal bull ratified by Alexander VI

Establishes a line of demarcation between Spanish & Portuguese discoveries

Papal bull ratified by Alexander VI. Establishes a line of demarcation between Spanish & Portuguese discoveries

Papal bull ratified by Alexander VI. Establishes a line of demarcation between Spanish & Portuguese discoveries

Has Edmund de le Pole executed for acting as a mercenary in the French Army. Edmund de le Pole, supported by France as the "White Rose" pretender

Protects Martin Luther at Wartburg Castle after the Diet of Worms.

Arranges Luther's protective custody at Wartburg Castle.

In charge of the banquet to entertain the French embassy

Francis Weston is arrested for high treason

George Boleyn is arrested for high treason

William Brereton is arrested for high treason

William Brereton is arrested for high treason. Francis Weston is arrested for high treason

George Boleyn is arrested for high treason

William Brereton is arrested for high treason

William Brereton is arrested for high treason. Francis Weston is arrested for high treason

Francis Weston is arrested for high treason

English forces take Leith as the expedition advances toward Edinburgh.

The troops entered Edinburgh's Canongate, and set the city on fire. Edinburgh Castle was defended by cannon fire commanding the Royal Mile. Hertford decided not to lay siege but thoroughly burn the city. According to the English contemporary account, all the houses within the suburbs and city walls were burnt including Holyroodhouse and the Abbey

Created Earl of Essex

Dutch explorer Peter Minuit lands on what is now Manhattan Island

Charles decides that continuing debate will not produce the requested subsidies.

Charles decides that continuing debate will not produce the requested subsidies.

The Danish princess Ulrika Eleonora lands in Sweden before the royal wedding.

The Danish princess Ulrika Eleonora lands in Sweden before the royal wedding.

Executes a settlement placing Sarah's Agney estate in trustees so that it remains for her separate use.

Appoints Marlborough Captain General of English land forces.

Queen Anne declares war on France and continues England's commitment to the Grand Alliance.

Anne declares war against France and Spain under the English calendar.

Queen Anne declares war on France and Spain after England enters the Grand Alliance.

The Treaty is ratified by Congress

Louis XVI took part in the ceremonial procession preceding the formal opening of the Estates General at Versailles.

Appointed Governor of Mysore

Tipu Sultan dies fighting during the British-led storming of Srirangapatna.

Granted 2 million francs annually, keeps his Imperial title

Leaves Bogota intending to travel into exile after resigning from political leadership.

Halts hostilities, Egypt is allowed to have sovereignty over Syria & Cilicia

Halts hostilities, Egypt is allowed to have sovereignty over Syria & Cilicia

Under the Convention of Kutahya Egypt is allowed to have sovereignty over Cilicia

Under the Convention of Kutahya Egypt is allowed to have sovereignty over Syria

Public railway services begin across the Royal Albert Bridge as the Cornwall Railway opens through Saltash.

French victory at Magenta is followed by the French liberation of Milan

Acha begins serving as constitutional President of Bolivia.

Issues A Warning in connection with organisational disputes inside the International Workingmen's Association.

Daza overthrows Frias and establishes a military government.

The United States assumes control of Canal Zone property and the canal construction project.

Answers Commons questions about piracy and British naval responsibilities in Chinese waters.

Answers parliamentary questions about the Royal Flying Corps and naval aviation responsibilities.

Churchill explains the Admiralty's appointment of Admiral Reginald Bacon during parliamentary questioning.

Churchill rejects exaggerated press allegations concerning the conduct of the Dardanelles operation.

Begins the Einar Arnorsson Ministry and serves as Minister for Iceland.

The Sigurdur Eggerz Ministry ends, concluding this period as Minister for Iceland.

Churchill argues that criticism of the Dardanelles should not unfairly damage Admiral Fisher's reputation.

Responds to concerns about rising food and coal prices during wartime.

Churchill answers questions concerning the treatment of captured German submarine crews.

Appointed Prime Minister of Iceland

Addresses the Government response to the Easter Rising and the treatment of rebels.

Forms a coalition Government, 6 socialists enter the cabinet

Forms a coalition Government, 6 socialists enter the cabinet

Returns to Petrograd after release from British detention and immediately re-enters revolutionary politics.

Leads a student protest against the Versailles Peace Conference

Over 3000 students of Peking University and other schools gather together in front of Tiananmen and hold a demonstration

Students join in a protest in the Tiananmen Square of Beijing against the European powers decision to grant German-controlled Shandong to Japan, and thus create a new nationalist Chinese movement ("May 4th movement"). Over 3000 students of Peking University and other schools gather together in front of Tiananmen and hold a demonstration. Demonstrations against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

Demonstrations against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

Romania, Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia take nearly 2/3 of Hungarys territory

1st day of the General Strike

4 million trades unionists are ordered at the General Council of the TUC to cease work. 1st day of the General Strike

Arrested by the British

Appointed Prime Minister of Turkey, 6th term

Speaks against or scrutinises the operation of the Import Duties Act.

Wins the election for President under the 1927 constitution

Wins the election for President under the 1927 constitution

Appointed President of Ireland

Begins the First Buhl Government in Copenhagen and serves as Prime Minister of Denmark.

Cho supports a major Japanese counteroffensive that leaves the Thirty-Second Army weakened after costly attacks on American lines.

Elements of the 3rd Army reach Czech

Accepts the unconditional surrender of German forces in the Netherlands, north-west Germany and Denmark.

Ushijima authorizes a broad counterattack that fails to break the American positions and causes severe Japanese losses.

Elements of the 3rd Army reach Czech

Mao supports the shift from rent reduction toward more radical land reform in Communist-held areas

Liu Shaoqi is associated with the land policy directive encouraging redistribution in Communist areas

Is overthrown by Alfredo Stroessner during a military uprising.

Overthrows President Federico Chaves during a military uprising.

Dixon lifts the FA Cup after captaining Villa against the Busby Babes.

Houghton manages Villa to a seventh FA Cup by defeating Manchester United 2-1.

McParland scores both Villa goals in the 2-1 final victory over Manchester United.

Wins a seat in supplementary elections that strengthen the Pathet Lao legal front

Is elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Refuses to accept the apartheid court's moral legitimacy.

Is sentenced to three years imprisonment for incitement.

Lynch submits an after-action report describing the landing operation and the rapid deterioration of the invasion.

Robertson submits his after-action account of the Bay of Pigs landing operation to the Taylor inquiry.

Rebel military officers launched an unsuccessful uprising against the constitutional government at Carupano.

Addresses hospital administrators on efficiency, planning and the use of resources within the National Health Service.

Requests the US Ambassador Henry Lodge to bomb North Vietnam

Kent State shootings follow nationwide protests over the Cambodia incursion

Killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University

Killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University

Killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University

Killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University

Appears on Yessongs, documenting the band as a major live progressive rock act.

Scores twice as Liverpool beat Newcastle United 3-0 in the FA Cup final.

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1st term

Continues in Parliament as Margaret Thatcher forms a Conservative government.

Commands naval reconnaissance activity that locates the British force before the Super Etendard attack on HMS Sheffield.

Launches an AM39 Exocet during the mission that fatally damages HMS Sheffield.

Completes aerial refuelling with Bedacarratz before the pair continue at low level toward the British task force.

Participates in the Argentine Navy's first wartime Super Etendard and Exocet attack against the British fleet.

HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile.

Loses HMS Sheffield to Argentine air attack.

The British lose the Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield to fire following an Exocet missile strike - 20 die

Uses a Neptune patrol aircraft to maintain contact information on the British force for the Sheffield strike.

Israel accepts the US proposal for mutual withdrawal from Lebanon of Israel & Syria

British forces begin bombarding Argentine positions around Stanley

Returns to Rio Grande after the attack that leaves HMS Sheffield fatally damaged.

Takes off in a Super Etendard with Armando Mayora for an Exocet strike against the British task force.

Flies as the second Super Etendard pilot in the Exocet mission against HMS Sheffield.

Provides targeting information that enables the Super Etendard pair to approach the British naval formation.

Iran outlaws the Tufeh, Iranian Communist Party

Israel accepts the US proposal for mutual withdrawal from Lebanon of Israel & Syria

Reagan declares his support for the Nicaraguan Contras

Israel accepts the US proposal for mutual withdrawal from Lebanon of Israel & Syria

Iran outlaws the Tufeh, Iranian Communist Party

Scores the only goal as Anderlecht defeat Benfica in the first leg of the UEFA Cup final.

Najibullah becomes PDPA general secretary and begins consolidating control over the government.

Karmal is replaced by Mohammad Najibullah as PDPA general secretary.

Magellan launches to map Venus with synthetic aperture radar.

Negotiations began with a meeting between the African National Congress and the South African Government at the presidential residence, Groote Schuur. Groote Schuur Minute, a commitment to the resolution of the climate of violence and intimidation as well as the removal of practical obstacles to negotiations including indemnity from prosecution for returning exiles & release of political prisoners

Groote Schuur Minute, a commitment to the resolution of the climate of violence and intimidation as well as the removal of practical obstacles to negotiations including indemnity from prosecution for returning exiles & release of political prisoners

Estonia votes to secede from the USSR

Latvia votes to secede from the USSR

Estonia votes to secede from the USSR

Latvia votes to secede from the USSR

In order that the Palestinians should govern themselves according to democratic principles, free and general political elections would be held for the Council

The Israeli Government recognizes the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people while the PLO recognizes the right of the state of Israel to exist and renounces terrorism.

The Oslo Accords call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank and affirm the Palestinian right to self-Government within those areas through the creation of the Palestinian Authori.

Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin sign the Oslo Accords.

Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin sign the Oslo Accords. The Israeli Government recognizes the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people while the PLO recognizes the right of the state of Israel to exist and renounces terrorism. Provides for elections in Palestinian controlled areas

In order that the Palestinians should govern themselves according to democratic principles, free and general political elections would be held for the Council

Provides for elections in Palestinian controlled areas

The Oslo Accords call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank and affirm the Palestinian right to self-Government within those areas through the creation of the Palestinian Authori

The Oslo Accords call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank and affirm the Palestinian right to self-Government within those areas through the creation of the Palestinian Authority. Leaders of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) signed the Oslo Accords calling for Palestinian administration of the Gaza Strip, implemented in May 1994

The Oslo Accords call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank and affirm the Palestinian right to self-Government within those areas through the creation of the Palestinian Authori

Scores the only goal as Arsenal defeat Parma to win the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Supports the agreement establishing Palestinian self-government in Gaza and Jericho.

Abbas supports implementation of the Gaza Jericho Agreement under the Oslo process

Signs the Gaza Jericho Agreement implementing the first stage of Palestinian self-government.

Supports negotiations implementing the first stage of Palestinian self-government.

Israel & the PLO sign a deal on Palestinian self-rule in Jericho & the Gaza Strip

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that grants self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho

Signs the Gaza-Jericho self-rule accord with Rabin, setting out the first transfer of authority to Palestinian administration.

Signs the Gaza-Jericho Agreement providing for Israeli withdrawal and Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho.

The Palestinian National Authority is created to administer areas handed over to Palestinian rule

The Palestinian National Authority is created to administer areas handed over to Palestinian rule. Israel & the PLO sign a deal on Palestinian self-rule in Jericho & the Gaza Strip

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that grants self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho

Israel & the PLO sign a deal on Palestinian self-rule in Jericho & the Gaza Strip

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that grants self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Kula Shaker enter the UK Top Forty with Grateful When You're Dead during their rapid 1996 breakthrough.

Catatonia's Lost Cat reaches the UK singles chart during the band's early breakthrough period.

Sale of the Century reaches number ten on the UK singles chart, giving Sleeper a Top Ten hit.

Meets Laurent Kabila aboard the South African ship Outeniqua during Nelson Mandela's unsuccessful mediation effort.

Putin signs the resolution of ratification for START II and its extension protocol, the legislation makes exchange of the instruments of ratification (required to bring the Treaty into force) contingent on US ratification of the 1997 extension protocol

Scores from distance to give Arsenal the lead against Chelsea in the FA Cup final.

Scores Arsenal's second goal in the 2-0 FA Cup final victory over Chelsea.

Porto defeat Deportivo La Coruna to reach the Champions League final.

The Dalai Lama endorses renewed contact between his envoys and Chinese officials.

Scores the late winning goal against Osasuna that mathematically secures the league title.

Chinese officials meet representatives of the Dalai Lama after international calls for dialogue.

Coaches Real Madrid to their thirty-first Spanish league championship.

Announces final Gravity Probe B results confirming geodetic precession and frame dragging around Earth.

Burnham wins the first directly elected Greater Manchester mayoral contest.

Roma announce Mourinho as head coach for the following season.

Coaches Real Madrid to their thirty-sixth Spanish league championship.

Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak is born in Kafr el-Meselha in Monufia Governorate.

Tipu Sultan is killed while defending Srirangapatna during the final assault on 4 May 1799.

Death of Fedor von Bock during an Allied raid on Hamburg

Death of Josip Broz Tito, leaves a power vacuum that threatens the unity of Yugoslavia

Death of Josip Broz Tito

Captured in battle by the Yorkists

Margaret of Anjou had returned to England with Anne Neville and Prince Edward in April, bringing additional troops. At the Battle of Tewkesbury, Edward IV crushed this last Lancastrian army. Prince Edward was killed in or shortly after the battle, and Anne Neville was taken prisoner

Twelve ships are sunk with the loss of two U-boats

Richard III enters London with Edward V for his coronation

Richard III enters London with Edward V for his coronation