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August 4 is a date where history swings between crowns and constitutions, disasters and discoveries. It carries medieval turning points and empire-building choke points, revolutionary laws that rewired society, and grim modern shocks that still echo in living memory. It’s a day of power—who takes it, who loses it, and who gets crushed when governments and systems fail. Yet it’s also a day of craft and consequence: institutions formed, borders redrawn, and knowledge pushed outward—sometimes all the way to Mars. Echoes: August 4 gathers these moments into a single chronological thread, letting the centuries stack like layers of paint—beautiful, brutal, and impossible to ignore.
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August 4, historical events, on this day timeline, Battle of Evesham 1265, Siege of Calais 1347, Battle of Alcacer Quibir 1578, Great Peace of Montreal 1701, Gibraltar captured 1704, Decrees 1789, abolition of feudalism France, Revenue Cutter Service 1790, U.S. Coast Guard birthday, Treaty of Sistova 1791, Battle of Lonato 1796, Siege of Fort Erie 1814, Saturday Evening Post first issue 1821, Hinomaru flag 1854, Matica slovenska 1863, Great Fire Spokane 1889, Lizzie Borden murders 1892, U.S. occupation of Nicaragua 1912, World War I Belgium invasion 1914, Warsaw occupied 1915, Metaxas regime 1936, Anne Frank arrested 1944, Dominican Republic earthquake 1946, Supreme Court of Japan 1947, Freedom Summer murders found 1964, Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964, Cook Islands constitution 1965, Kissinger secret talks 1969, Ugandan Asian expulsions 1972, Italicus Express bombing 1974, Japanese Red Army Kuala Lumpur 1975, Department of Energy 1977, Sankara coup 1983, Burkina Faso renamed 1984, Fairness Doctrine rescinded 1987, Operation Storm 1995, Muttur massacre 2006, Phoenix Mars Lander launch 2007, Caracas drone incident 2018, Dayton shooting 2019, Beirut explosion 2020, Edenglow Echoes series
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