Historical Events on August 4

1265 battle of the Second Barons' War in England

Battle in 1320 between the Teutonic Knights and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

1361 battle fought in the town of Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden between the forces of Danish king Valdemar IV and Gutnish country yeomen

1469 battle in the English Wars of the Roses

1617 naval battle of the Spanish–Algerian conflicts

1642 skirmish in Somerset prior to the English Civil War

Event during the Khmelnytsky Uprising

1700 battle in the Great Northern War

Battle in 1737 in the Austro-Turkish-Russian war

Treaty signed by Kartli-Kakheti and the Russian Empire

1800 naval engagement that took place off the Brazilian coast during the French Revolutionary Wars

Naval engagement in 1855 against Chinese pirates

1870 first battle of the Franco-Prussian War

1913 battle in Somalia

Treaty of the Danish West Indies

1922 military engagement in the Dushanbe region of Tajikistan between Turkish and Muslim forces affiliated with the Basmachi Movement and the Soviet Red Army

1957 German Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1957

1963 German Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1963

1968 German Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1968

1974 German Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1974

1985 German Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1985

L.A. Fitness mass murder

Battle of the 2011 Libyan Civil War

2012 battle in Afghanistan

Terrorist attack in Jakarta, Indonesia

Death in police custody of an Australian Aboriginal woman

Incident on 4 August 2017, in Chandigarh, India

UFC mixed martial arts event in 2018

2019 Hungarian Grand Prix — motor car race

2020 Beirut explosions — accidental ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut, Lebanon

2023 riots at Union Square, Manhattan, New York City, USA