WHAT HAPPENED ON 4. MARCH
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Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). (4. March 51)

Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. (4. March 306)

Croatian Knyaz Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources. (4. March 852)

Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs. (4. March 932)

Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans. (4. March 1152)

The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'. (4. March 1238)

Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam. (4. March 1351)

Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland. (4. March 1386)

Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV. (4. March 1461)

Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean. (4. March 1493)

Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth. (4. March 1519)

The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter. (4. March 1628)

English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. (4. March 1665)

John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England. (4. March 1675)

Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. (4. March 1681)

American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston. (4. March 1776)

In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. The United States Bill of Rights is written and proposed to Congress. (4. March 1789)

France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility. (4. March 1790)

The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario). (4. March 1791)

Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state. (4. March 1791)