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The following events took place on July 4. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 80 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1863

  American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
• 1865

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
• 1878

  Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
• 1879

  Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
• 1881

  In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• 1886

  The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
• 1886

  The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
• 1887

  The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• 1892

  Western Samoa changes the International Date Line. Monday, July 4 occurs twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
• 1894

  The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• 1903

  Philippine–American War officially is concluded.
• 1903

  Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first English woman to compete in a 'motor race'.
• 1910

  African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
• 1911

  A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
• 1913

  President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
• 1914

  The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
• 1918

  Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
• 1918

  World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
• 1918

  Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
• 1926

  Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1927

  First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
• 1934

  Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
• 1939

  Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself “The luckiest man on the face of the earth”, then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
• 1939

  Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism.
• 1941

  Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
• 1941

  World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga is burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
• 1942

  World War II: The 250 day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
• 1943

  World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village.
• 1943

  World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives.
• 1946

  The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.

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