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On April 4, -503: Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.

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Featured moment · -503

Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.

The consuls were the two highest elected public officials of the Roman Republic. Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum—an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired—after that of the censor, which was reserved for former consuls. Each year, the centuriate assembly elected two consuls to serve jointly for a one-year term.

People

Born on April 4

Lil Mabu 2005– American rapper (born 2005)
Harvey Elliott 2003– English footballer (born 2003)
Anzor Alem 2001– Congolese actor and singer (born 2001)
Jalen Carter 2001– American football player (born 2001)
Angelo Stiller 2001– German footballer (born 2001)
Austin Mahone 1996– American singer (born 1996)
Shunsuke Nishikawa 1994– Japanese actor (born 1994)
Risako Sugaya 1994– Japanese singer and actress
Samir Carruthers 1993– English footballer (born 1993)
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David Soria 1993– Spanish footballer
Frank Kaminsky 1993– American basketball player (born 1993)
Lucy May Barker 1992– British actress
Ricky Dillon 1992– American YouTuber
Yui Koike 1991– Japanese actress
Asia Muhammad 1991– American tennis player (born 1991)
Justin O'Neill 1991– Australia international rugby league footballer
Martín Pérez 1991– Venezuelan baseball player (born 1991)
Jamie Lynn Spears 1991– American actress and singer (born 1991)

People

Died on April 4

Manoj Kumar Indian film actor and filmmaker (1937–2025)
Tony Rundle Australian politician (1939–2025)
Lynne Reid Banks British writer (1929–2024)
Thomas Gumbleton American Catholic prelate and activist (1930–2024)
Pat Zachry American baseball player (1952–2024)
Chus Lampreave Spanish actress
Jamaluddin Jarjis Malaysian politician
Elmer Lach Canadian ice hockey player (1918–2015)
Donald N. Levine American sociologist (1931–2015)
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Klaus Rifbjerg Danish writer (1931–2015)
İsmet Atlı Turkish wrestler and coach (1931–2014)
Wayne Henderson American jazz trombonist (1939–2014)
Kumba Ialá President of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2003
Margo MacDonald Scottish politician (1943–2014)
Curtis Bill Pepper American journalist
Muhammad Qutb Egyptian Islamist writer and scholar
Bengt Blomgren Swedish actor, film director and screenwriter
Roger Ebert American film critic and author (1942–2013)

Timeline

Every April 4 on record

  1. -503 Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.

    Political office in ancient Rome

    The consuls were the two highest elected public officials of the Roman Republic. Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum—an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired—after that of the censor, which was reserved for former consuls. Each year, the centuriate assembly elected two consuls to serve jointly for a one-year term.

  2. 190 Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.

    2nd-century Chinese military general and warlord

    Dong Zhuo, courtesy name Zhongying, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty. At the end of the reign of the Eastern Han, Dong Zhuo was a general and powerful minister of the imperial government. Originally from Liang Province, Dong Zhuo seized control of the imperial capital Luoyang in 189 when it entered a state of turmoil following the death of Emperor Ling of Han and a massacre of the eunuch faction by the court officials.

  3. 611 Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.

    Ruler of the Kaan kingdom from 579 to 611

    Scroll Serpent was a Maya ruler of the Kaan kingdom. He ruled from AD 579 to 611. He acceded on 2 September.

  4. 619 The Bijapur-Mumbai inscription is issued by Pulakeshin II, describing the Battle of Narmada.: 207

    Chalukya Emperor from 609 to 642

    Pulakeshin II, popularly known as Immaḍi Pulakeśi, was the Chālukyan emperor from c. 609 to 642. During his reign, the Chalukya empire of Vatapi expanded to cover most of the Deccan region in peninsular India.

  5. 801 King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.

    Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 813 to 840

    Louis the Pious, also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aquitaine from 781. As the only surviving son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position that he held until his death except from November 833 to March 834, when he was deposed.

  6. 1268 A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
  7. 1423 Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule victories were achieved against the Kingdom of Hungary and against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416).
  8. 1581 Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
  9. 1609 Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
  10. 1660 Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
  11. 1796 Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.
  12. 1814 Napoleon abdicates (conditionally) for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French, followed by unconditional abdication two days later.
  13. 1818 The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).
  14. 1841 William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office, and setting the record for the briefest administration. Vice President John Tyler succeeds Harrison as President.
  15. 1860 The declaration on the introduction of the Finnish markka as an official currency is read in different parts of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
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  1. 1865 American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  2. 1866 Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.
  3. 1887 Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
  4. 1894 Foyot bombing by the Russian or French state during the Ère des attentats.
  5. 1904 Two Ms  ~7.1 earthquakes, among the largest in Europe, strike Bulgaria, killing over 200 people and causing destruction.
  6. 1905 In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
  7. 1913 First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
  8. 1920 The four-day Nebi Musa riots commence.
  9. 1925 The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany.
  10. 1933 U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
  11. 1944 World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3,000 civilians.
  12. 1945 World War II: United States Army troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
  13. 1945 World War II: United States Army troops capture Kassel.
  14. 1945 World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from German occupation.
  15. 1946 Greek judge and archeologist Panagiotis Poulitsas is appointed Prime Minister of Greece in the midst of the Greek Civil War.

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