What happend on 4th March

03.03
05.03
1789

US Inauguration Day

1789

In New York City, the first U.S. Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect.

1681

Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

1665

Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

1461

Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.

1152

Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.