What is April 4?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === *[[1147]] &ndash; First historic record of [[Moscow]]. *[[1581]] &ndash; [[Francis Drake]] is knighted by Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]]. *[[1660]] &ndash; Declaration of [[Breda]] by [[Charles II of England]]. *[[1721]] &ndash; [[Robert Walpole]] becomes the first [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. *[[1789]] &ndash; The [[Mutiny on the Bounty|HMAV Bounty]] leaves [[Tahiti]]. *[[1812]] &ndash; [[US]] President [[James Madison]] creates a 90–day embargo on trade with the [[United Kingdom]]. *[[1814]] &ndash; [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] abdicates as Emperor of [[France]]. *[[1818]] &ndash; [[United States Congress]] adopts a 13–stripe and 20–star national [[flag]] for the [[United States]]. *[[1841]] &ndash; [[William Henry Harrison]] dies, making him the shortest–serving [[President of the United States]], with 31 days in office. [[John Tyler]] succeeds him. *[[1850]] &ndash; [[Los Angeles]] is incorporated as a city. *[[1865]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Abraham Lincoln]] visits Confederate capital city [[Richmond, Virginia]]. *[[1866]] &ndash; Tsar [[Alexander II of Russia]] survives an assassination attempt in [[Kyiv]]. *[[1873]] &ndash; The British [[Kennel Club]] is founded, for the registry of purebred [[dog]]s. *[[1884]] &ndash; A [[peace treaty]] ends the [[War of the Pacific]]. [[Chile]] gains [[territory]] from [[Bolivia]], which loses its [[coast]]line. *[[1887]] &ndash; Argonia, [[Kansas]], elects [[Susanna M. Salter]] as its [[Mayor]], becoming the first [[woman]] in the [[United States]] to take up this role. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === *[[1905]] &ndash; An [[earthquake]] in [[Kangra]], Northern [[India]], kills around 20,000 people. *[[1906]] &ndash; [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupts. *[[1917]] &ndash; British passenger steamer ''[[SS City of Paris (1907)|City of Paris]]'' is sunk by a German U–boat off the [[Cote d'Azur]], southern [[France]], killing all 122 people on board. *[[1925]] &ndash; The [[Schutzstaffel]] ([[SS]]) is founded. *[[1939]]