What happend on 4th August

03.08
05.08
1821

Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

1790

A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).

1789

The feudal system is abolished in France.

1753

George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry.

1735

Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.

1704

During the War of the Spanish Succession an Anglo-Dutch force seizes the rock of Gibraltar.

1693

Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.

1578

Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir

1265

The Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of future King Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of chivalry in England.