4th of July Around the World
- 2020 - 1901
- 1900 - 1771
- 1770 - 1631
- 1630 - 1351
- 1350 - 991
- 990 - 411
- 410 - 360
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| Year | Location | Description |
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| 362 BC | Mantinea, Arcadia | Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans. |
| 414 | Instanbul, Turkey | Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire. |
| 836 | Instanbul, Turkey | Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed. |
| 993 | Augsburg, Germany | Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint. |
| 1120 | Naples, Italy | Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death. |
| 1187 | Tiberias, Israel | The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. |
| 1253 | Westkapelle, Netherlands | Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre. |
| 1359 | Emilia-Romagna, Italy | Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz. |
| 1456 | Belgrade, Serbia | Ottoman wars in Europe: The Siege of Nándorfeqhérvár (Belgrade) begins. |
| 1534 | Jutland, Denmark | Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye. |
| 1610 | Smolensk Oblast, Russia | The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War. |
| 1634 | Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada | The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada). |
| 1744 | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cedes lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
| 1754 | Farmington, Pennsylvania | French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers. |
| 1774 | Tappan, New York | Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts |
| 1776 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. |
| 1778 | Kaskaskia, Illinois | American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign. |
| 1802 | West Point, New York | At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens. |
| 1803 | Louisiana | The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. |
| 1817 | Rome, New York | In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. |
| 1826 | Quincy, Massachusetts | John Adams, second president of the United States, dies the same day as Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. |
| 1826 | Monticello, Charlottesville, VA | Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. |
| 1827 | New York | Slavery is abolished in New York State. |
| 1831 | Boston, Massachusetts | Samuel Francis Smith writes My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities. |
| 1837 | Birmingham, UK | Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool. |
| 1837 | Liverpool, UK | Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool. |
| 1838 | Iowa | The Iowa Territory is organized. |
| 1855 | Brooklyn, New York | In Brooklyn, New York City, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published. |
| 1862 | Oxford, UK | Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels. |
| 1863 | Vicksburg, MIssissippi Helena, Arkansas | American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army was repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas. |
| 1863 | Gettysburg, PA | American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdrew from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North. |
| 1865 | United Kingdom | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published. |
| 1878 | Louisville, Kentucky | Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks. |
| 1879 | Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa | Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee. |
| 1881 | Tuskegee, AL | In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens. |
| 1886 | Alsace, France | The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States. |
| 1886 | Port Moody, Vancouver, BC | The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia. |
| 1887 | Karachi Sindh, Pakistan | The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi. |
| 1892 | Samoa | Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year it had 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4. |
| 1894 | Honolulu, Hawaii | The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole. |
| 1903 | Washington, DC | Philippine–American War officially is concluded. |
| 1903 | Southport, England | Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first English woman to compete in a 'motor race'. |
| 1910 | Reno, Nevada | African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. |
| 1911 | New York, NY | A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities. |
| 1913 | Gettysburg, PA | President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913. |
| 1914 | Vienna, Austria | The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo. |
| 1918 | Istanbul, Turkey | Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne. |
| 1918 | Le Hamel, France | World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front. |
| 1918 | Yekaterinburg, Russia | Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date). |
| 1926 | Elysburg, PA | Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 1927 | Los Angeles, CA | The Lockheed Vega first flew. |
| 1934 | London, England | Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. |
| 1939 | Bronx, New York | Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball. |
| 1939 | Vietnam | Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism. |
| 1941 | Lviv, Ukraine | Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. |
| 1941 | Riga, Latvia | World War II: the Burning of the Riga synagogues: the Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga was burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement. |
| 1942 | Sevastopol, Ukraine or Russia | World War II: the 250 day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces. |
| 1943 | Kursk, Russia | World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village. |
| 1943 | Gibraltar, Spain | World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives. |
| 1946 | Manila, Phillippines | After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. |
| 1947 | London, England | The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan. |
| 1950 | Prague, Czech Republic | Radio Free Europe first broadcasts. |
| 1951 | Prague, Czech Republic | A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage. |
| 1951 | Manhattan, NY | William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor. |
| 1960 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act). |
| 1966 | Stonewall, Texas | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year. |
| 1976 | Entebbe, Uganda | Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists. |
| 1977 | Olympia, Washington | The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit |
| 1982 | Southern Lebanon | Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon. |
| 1987 | Lyon, France | In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 1994 | Kigali, Rwanda | Rwandan Genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city. |
| 1998 | Kimotsuki, Japan | Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. |
| 2004 | New York, New York | The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. |
| 2009 | New York, New York | The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks. |
| 2012 | Myrin, Switzerland | The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. |
| 2013 | Hsinchu City, Taiwan | The Death of Hung Chung-chiu: A Republic of China Army corporal dies under suspicious circumstances while serving a detention sentence during his enlisted service. |
362 BC
Description: Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
414
Description: Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
836
Description: Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
993
Description: Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.
1120
Description: Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1187
Description: The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1253
Description: Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
1359
Description: Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1456
Description: Ottoman wars in Europe: The Siege of Nándorfeqhérvár (Belgrade) begins.
1534
Description: Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1610
Description: The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
1634
Description: The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
1744
Description: The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cedes lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1754
Description: French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
1774
Description: Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1776
Description: American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
1778
Description: American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
1802
Description: At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
1803
Description: The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1817
Description: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
1826
Description: John Adams, second president of the United States, dies the same day as Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1826
Description: Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1827
Description: Slavery is abolished in New York State.
1831
Description: Samuel Francis Smith writes My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities.
1837
Description: Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1837
Description: Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1838
Description: The Iowa Territory is organized.
1855
Description: In Brooklyn, New York City, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published.
1862
Description: Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1863
Description: American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army was repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
1863
Description: American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdrew from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
1865
Description: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
1878
Description: Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
1879
Description: Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
1881
Description: In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
1886
Description: The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
1886
Description: The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
1887
Description: The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1892
Description: Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year it had 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
1894
Description: The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
1903
Description: Philippine–American War officially is concluded.
1903
Description: Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first English woman to compete in a 'motor race'.
1910
Description: African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
1911
Description: A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
1913
Description: President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1914
Description: The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
1918
Description: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne.
1918
Description: World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
1918
Description: Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
1926
Description: Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
1927
Description: The Lockheed Vega first flew.
1934
Description: Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1939
Description: Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
1939
Description: Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism.
1941
Description: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
1941
Description: World War II: the Burning of the Riga synagogues: the Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga was burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
1942
Description: World War II: the 250 day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
1943
Description: World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village.
1943
Description: World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives.
1946
Description: After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
1947
Description: The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
1950
Description: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
1951
Description: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
1951
Description: William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor.
1960
Description: Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
1966
Description: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
1976
Description: Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
1977
Description: The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
1982
Description: Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
1987
Description: In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
1994
Description: Rwandan Genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
1998
Description: Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
2004
Description: The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
2009
Description: The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
2012
Description: The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
2013
Description: The Death of Hung Chung-chiu: A Republic of China Army corporal dies under suspicious circumstances while serving a detention sentence during his enlisted service.