Day In History
This Day in History
Today: April 4, 2026
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Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.[1]
190
Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.[2]
611
Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.[3]
801
King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.[4]
1268
A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.[5]
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).[6]
1581
Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.[7]
1609
Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.[8]
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.[9]
1796
Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.[10]
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