August 4th

The August 4th is the 216e Jour of the Année (217e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 1060 : Philippe Ier succeeds his father Henri Ier on the throne of France.

  • 1145 : The emperor Conrad III validates the titles of Raimond of the Beams and Étiennette, younger sister by Douce Ière, without specifying the contents too much of it, and the right of coinage gives them, favors attached to sovereignty.
  • 1265 : Battle of Evesham, battles decisive of the “second war of the Barons” during whom the English rebellious barons under the control of Simon V of Montfort will be massacred on the battle field by the royalist forces of Prince Edouard (future king Edouard Ier), four times more.
  • 1381 : Signature of the treated of Guérande.
  • 1443 : Foundation of the Old people's homes of Beaune, hospital for the poor, created on the initiative of Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the duke of Burgundy Philippe II the Good, and of its wife Saline Guigone.
  • 1532 : Treaty of fastening of the Brittany to the France.
  • 1578 : Battle of the Three Kings, Moroccan decisive victory against the luso-Spanish army
  • 1693: Probable date of discovered manufactoring process of the Champagne by Dom Pérignon.
  • 1789 : In France, abolition of the privileges by the constituent National Assembly.
  • 1802 : Proclamation of the Constitution of Year X.
  • 1870 : Battle of Wissembourg: defeat of the troops of Napoleon III vis-a-vis the Prussian .

XXe century

  • 1903 : The cardinal of Venice Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto becomes the Pape Pie X.

  • 1914 : Invasion of the Belgium by the Germany.
  • 1916 : (First World War): On the face of the the Middle East, second raid germano-Turkish on Cairo.
  • 1940 : The Italian army of Abyssinie enters in British Somalia.
  • 1944 : Arrest of Anne Frank by the Gestapo, like seven others Jewish S with Amsterdam.
  • 1958 : The submarine with nuclear propulsion states-unien Nautilus crosses the North pole under the ice-barrier.
  • 1962 : Junction of the French and Italian teams of drilling of the Tunnel of Mont Blanc.
  • 1982 : De-penalization of homosexuality in France.
  • 1984 : The Upper Volta becomes the Burkina Faso under the crook of the CNR (National council of the Revolution) directed by Thomas Sankara, which will be assassinated 3 years later (October 15th 1987) following a coup d'etat orchestrated by Blaise Compaoré.
  • 1988 : Leader of the Thailand, the general Prem Tinnasulanonda refuses in vain with Chatchai Chunhawan, leader of the party Nation Inhabitant of Thailand (Phak Thai cat), the post of Prime Minister who returns to him from right.
  • 1998 : Rupture of the dams of the river Yang Tsé Kiang in China: 2000 died and more 100  000 disaster victims.
  • 1999 : Coming into effect of a reform of the Orthography discussed in Germany.

XXIe century

  • 2002 :

  • 2005 : The Denmark sends a patrol boat towards the island Hans to maintain sovereignty Danish on the island, asserted by the Canada.
  • 2006 :
    • the Verkhovna Split vote the nomination of Viktor Ianoukovitch like Prime Minister for the Ukraine.
    • In Uganda, the Armée with resistance of the Lord announces the “unilateral suspension of the hostilities”, after 18 years of engagements against the regular army.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

  • Seven Door frames of Éphèse: Maximilien, Jamblique, Martinien, Jean, Denis, Constantin and Antonin (+ towards 250), martyrs.
  • Euphrone de Tours (+ 573), bishop who accommodated in Poitiers the relic of the Holy Cross from Constantinople.

Catholic saints

See too

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