What is November 4?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1493]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] lands on [[Guadeloupe]]. * [[1501]] &ndash; [[Catherine of Aragon]] meets [[Arthur Tudor]], the brother of [[Henry VIII of England]]. * [[1576]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]]: [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp]], [[Flanders]]. * [[1677]] &ndash; Future queen [[Mary II of England]] marries future king [[William III of England]]. * [[1783]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'s [[Symphony]] No. 36 is performed for the first time in [[Linz]], [[Austria]]. * [[1786]] &ndash; [[Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse]] lands on an island in the Northwestern [[Hawaii]]an Islands, which he names after [[Jacques Necker]]. * [[1798]] &ndash; Beginning of the Russo–Ottoman [[Siege of Corfu (1798–99)|Siege of Corfu]]. * [[1828]] &ndash; [[Andrew Jackson]] is elected [[President of the United States]]. * [[1847]] &ndash; [[Scotland|Scottish]] doctor [[James Young Simpson]] discovers the [[anaesthetic]] properties of [[chloroform]]. * [[1852]] &ndash; [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] becomes [[Prime Minister]] of [[Piedmont]]–[[Sardinia]], which later expands to become [[Italy]]. * [[1856]] &ndash; [[James Buchanan]] is elected [[President of the United States]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; The [[University of Washington]] is founded. * [[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnson]] – [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of [[dollar]]s of [[material]]. * [[1875]] &ndash; Paddle steamer ''Pacific'' collides with ''Orpheus'' [[sailing]] [[boat]] off [[Cape Flattery]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], killing 273 people. * [[1884]] &ndash; [[Grover Cleveland]] is elected to his first term as [[President of the United States]]. * [[1890]] &ndash; [[London]]'s deep–level [[railway]] opens between King William Street and Stockwell. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1918]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]]. * [[1921