February 4 in history
Events on February 4
Notable events that happened on February 4 in past years.
- 2025
Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden.
Wikipedia article: Örebro school shooting - 2008
Civic mobilizations in Colombia against FARC, under the name A million voices against the FARC.
Wikipedia article: Colombia - 2000
The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
Wikipedia article: Jacques Chirac - 1997
En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.
Wikipedia article: Lebanon - 1976
In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
Wikipedia article: Guatemala - 1974
M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
Wikipedia article: M62 coach bombing - 1961
The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
Wikipedia article: Angolan War of Independence - 1945
World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
Wikipedia article: Yalta Conference - 1938
Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
Wikipedia article: Adolf Hitler - 1861
American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six breakaway U.S. states meet and initiate the process that would form the Confederate States of America on February 8.
Wikipedia article: American Civil War - 1825
The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
Wikipedia article: Ohio General Assembly - 1797
The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
Wikipedia article: 1797 Riobamba earthquake - 1758
The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral.
Wikipedia article: Macapá - 1454
Thirteen Years' War: The Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, sparking the Thirteen Years' War.
- 211
Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling sons, Caracalla and Geta, whom he had instructed to make peace.
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