What happend on 4th March

03.03
05.03
1881

A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, begins.

1877

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts.

1877

Emile Berliner invents the microphone.

1861

The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.

1849

America goes without a President for one day. The expiration of James K. Polk's term occurred at 12pm, but Zachary Taylor was not sworn in until the next day. Although rejected by constitutional experts, some believe that David Rice Atchison, the President pro tempore of the United States Senate at the time, was the "acting president".

1848

Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia

1837

Chicago is granted a city charter by Illinois.

1804

The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia)

1791

Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.

1790

France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.