On March 4, history records 60 notable events, 387 famous births and 156 deaths, spanning the years 306 to 1519.
Events on this day include: Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. (306); Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources. (852).
Notable people born on March 4 include Liu Zhiyuan (895), Blanche of Castile (1188), Prince Henry the Navigator (1394).
Notable figures who died on this day include Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia (306), Landry of Sées (480), Pope Pelagius I (561).
Events on 4 March 60
See all →Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
Birthdays on 4 March 387
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Deaths on 4 March 156
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