Editing February 4 (section)

==Events==
===Pre–1600===
* [[211]] &ndash; Following the death of the Roman Emperor [[Septimius Severus]] at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the [[Caledonians]], the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling sons, [[Caracalla]] and [[Geta (emperor)|Geta]], whom he had instructed to make peace.<ref>{{cite book|first=Anthony R|last=Birley|author-link=Anthony Birley|title=Septimius Severus: The African Emperor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8iEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT238|date=1 June 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-70745-4|pages=238}}</ref>
* [[960]] &ndash; [[Zhao Kuangyin]] declares himself [[Emperor Taizu of Song]], ending the [[Later Zhou]] and beginning the [[Song dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lorge|first=Peter|title=The Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song Dynasty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5C7uCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT18|access-date=3 February 2018|date=31 December 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781316432273|pages=4–5}}</ref>
*[[1169]] &ndash; A [[1169 Sicily earthquake|strong earthquake]] strikes the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in [[Catania]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Ugo|last=Falcando|title=The History of the Tyrants of Sicily by "Hugo Falcandus," 1154–69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LlkpnG1iAEwC&pg=PA216|year=1998|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5435-8|pages=216}}</ref>
*[[1454]] &ndash; [[Thirteen Years' War (1454–66)|Thirteen Years' War]]: The Secret Council of the [[Prussian Confederation]] sends a formal act of disobedience to the [[Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights|Grand Master]] of the [[Teutonic Order|Teutonic Knights]], sparking the Thirteen Years' War.<ref>{{cite book|last=Prtuz|first=Hans|translator-last=Wright|translator-first=John Henry|title=The Age of Renaissance. Vol. X: A History of All Nations|location=New York|publisher=Lea Brothers & Company|date=1905|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iws6AQAAIAAJ|page=234|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Sedlar|first=Jean W.|title=A History of East Central Europe. Vol. 3: East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500|location=Seattle|publisher=University of Washington Press|date=2014|isbn=9780295972916|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3o5lrvuwOVwC|page=294}}</ref>
*[[1555]] &ndash; [[John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr)|John Rogers]] is [[burned at the stake]], becoming the first English [[Protestant]] [[martyr]] under [[Mary I of England]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Loach|first=Jennifer|title=Parliament and the Crown in the Reign of Mary Tudor|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1986|isbn=9780198229360|page=128}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1703]] &ndash; In [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]] (now Tokyo), all but one of the [[Forty-seven Ronin]] commit [[seppuku]] (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.<ref>{{cite book|last=Coffey|first=Thomas M.|title=Imperial Tragedy: Japan in World War II, the First Days and the Last|location=New York|publisher=World Publishing Co.|date=1971|oclc=713931898|pages=214–215}}</ref>
*[[1758]] &ndash; The city of [[Macapá]] in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral.
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[George Washington]] is unanimously elected as the first [[President of the United States]] by the [[U.S. Electoral College]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Merrill|last1=Jensen|author-link1=Merrill Jensen|first2=Lucy Trumbull|last2=Brown|first3=Robert A.|last3=Becker|title=The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788–1790|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rklx9c7MJFoC&pg=PR15|year=1976|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-10650-8|pages=15}}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; The French legislature abolishes [[slavery]] throughout all territories of the [[French First Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Filip|last=Batselé|title=Liberty, Slavery and the Law in Early Modern Western Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4tHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53|publisher=Springer Nature|isbn=978-3-030-36855-5|pages=53|year=2020}}</ref> It would be reestablished in the [[French West Indies]] in 1802.
*[[1797]] &ndash; The [[1797 Riobamba earthquake|Riobamba earthquake]] strikes [[Ecuador]], causing up to 40,000 casualties.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=avgyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA293|year=1837|pages=293}}</ref>
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[John Marshall]] is sworn in as [[Chief Justice of the United States]].
*[[1810]] &ndash; Napoleonic Wars: Britain [[Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810)|seizes Guadeloupe]].
*[[1820]] &ndash; The [[Chilean Navy]] under the command of [[Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald|Lord Cochrane]] completes the two-day long [[Capture of Valdivia]] with just 300 men and two ships.
*[[1825]] &ndash; The [[Ohio Legislature]] authorizes the construction of the [[Ohio and Erie Canal]] and the [[Miami and Erie Canal]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Huntington|first1=C.C.|last2=McClelland|first2=C.P.|title=History of the Ohio Canals: Their Construction, Cost, Use and Partial Abandonment|location=Columbus, Ohio|publisher=Press of F.J. Heer|date=1905|oclc=7004707|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UC9AAAAAIAAJ|page=18}}</ref>
*[[1846]] &ndash; The first [[Mormon pioneers]] make their exodus from [[Nauvoo, Illinois]], westward towards [[Salt Lake Valley]].
*[[1859]] &ndash; The [[Codex Sinaiticus]] is discovered in [[Egypt]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Calvin Ellis|last=Stowe|author-link=Calvin Ellis Stowe|title=Origin and History of the Books of the Bible|url=https://archive.org/details/originhistoryofb02stow|year=1868|publisher=Denison|pages=[https://archive.org/details/originhistoryofb02stow/page/72 72]}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: In [[Montgomery, Alabama]], delegates from six breakaway [[U.S. state]]s meet and initiate the process that would form the [[Confederate States of America]] on [[February 8]].
*[[1899]] &ndash; The [[Philippine–American War]] begins when four Filipino soldiers enter the "American Zone" in Manila, igniting the [[Battle of Manila (1899)|Battle of Manila]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Nickeson|first=Dawn Ottevaere|chapter=Philippine Islands, U.S. Acquisition of|title=The Encyclopedia of the Spanish–American and Philippine–American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2009|isbn=9781851099511|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8V3vZxOmHssC|page=491}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]: [[Harbin]], [[Manchuria]], [[Defense of Harbin|falls to]] [[Empire of Japan|Japan]].
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Adolf Hitler]] appoints himself as head of the [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht|Armed Forces High Command]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; The [[United Service Organization]] (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Santo Tomas Internment Camp]] is liberated from Japanese authority.
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: The [[Yalta Conference]] between the "Big Three" ([[Winston Churchill|Churchill]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]], and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]) opens at the [[Livadia Palace]] in the [[Crimea#Soviet Union: 1922.E2.80.931991|Crimea]].
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: The [[British Indian Army]] and [[Imperial Japanese Army]] begin a series of battles known as the [[Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Dominion of Ceylon|Ceylon]] (later renamed [[Sri Lanka]]) becomes independent within the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]].
*[[1961]] &ndash; The [[Angolan War of Independence]] and the greater [[Portuguese Colonial War]] begin.
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[All Nippon Airways Flight 60]] plunges into [[Tokyo Bay]], killing 133.
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Lunar Orbiter program]]: [[Lunar Orbiter 3]] lifts off from [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral's]] Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the [[Surveyor program|Surveyor]] and [[Apollo program|Apollo]] spacecraft.
*[[1974]] &ndash; The [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] kidnaps [[Patty Hearst]] in [[Berkeley, California]].
*  1974   &ndash; [[M62 coach bombing]]: The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty [[British Armed Forces]] personnel in [[Yorkshire]], England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[1975 Haicheng earthquake|Haicheng earthquake]] (magnitude 7.3 on the [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]]) occurs in [[Haicheng, Liaoning]], China.
*[[1976]] &ndash; In [[Guatemala]] and [[Honduras]] an [[1976 Guatemala earthquake|earthquake]] kills more than 22,000.
*[[1977]] &ndash; A [[Chicago Transit Authority]] [[elevated train]] [[1977 Chicago Loop derailment|rear-ends another and derails]], killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
*[[1992]] &ndash; A [[1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts|coup d'état]] is led by [[Hugo Chávez]] against [[Venezuela]]n President [[Carlos Andrés Pérez]].
*[[1997]] &ndash; En route to [[Lebanon]], two Israeli [[Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion|Sikorsky CH-53]] troop-transport helicopters [[1997 Israeli helicopter disaster|collide in mid-air]] over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.
*  1997   &ndash; The [[1997 Bojnurd earthquake|Bojnurd earthquake]] measuring {{M|w}} 6.5 strikes Iran. With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages.<ref name=NGDC>[[National Geophysical Data Center]] / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. [[NOAA]] [[National Centers for Environmental Information]]. [[doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K]]</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; The 5.9 {{M|w}} [[February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake|Afghanistan earthquake]] shakes the [[Takhar Province]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VII (''Very strong''). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
*[[1999]] &ndash; Unarmed West African immigrant [[Shooting of Amadou Diallo|Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times]] by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
*[[2000]] &ndash; The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, [[Jacques Chirac]] and the Director General of [[UNESCO]], [[Koichiro Matsuura]], initiating [[World Cancer Day]] which is held on February 4 every year.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium: Charter of Paris, 4 February 2000 |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000119111 |access-date=24 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.mdanderson.org/app/paris/default.html|title=You can join the global fight against cancer!|access-date=28 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://connection.asco.org/magazine/features/world-cancer-day-why-fourth-february|title=World Cancer Day: Why the Fourth of February?|date=19 March 2012|last=Khayat|first=David|author-link=David Khayat|website=ASCO Connection|access-date=28 June 2019}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; The [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Facebook]], a mainstream online [[social networking site]], is founded by [[Mark Zuckerberg]] and [[Eduardo Saverin]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-battle-for-facebook-242989/|title=The Battle For Facebook|last1=Hoffman|first1=Claire|author-link1=Claire Hoffman|date=2010-09-15|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref>
*[[2008]] &ndash; Civic mobilizations in [[Colombia]] against [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia|FARC]], under the name [[One million voices against FARC|''A million voices against the FARC'']].<ref name=tiempo>{{cite web |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-3945957 |title= Marcha contra las Farc, mayor movilización en la historia del país |access-date=March 22, 2023 |last= |first= |date=February 4, 2008 |work=El Tiempo |publisher=Casa Editorial El Tiempo |location=Bogotá |language=Spanish |quote= }}</ref>
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[TransAsia Airways Flight 235]], with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital [[Taipei]] to [[Kinmen]], crashes into the [[Keelung River]] just after takeoff, killing 43 people.
*[[2020]] &ndash; The [[COVID-19 pandemic]] causes all casinos in [[Macau]] to be closed down for 15 days.<ref>{{cite news|last=Stevenson|first=Alexandra|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/business/coronavirus-macau-gambling.html|title=Coronavirus Shuts Macau, the World's Gambling Capital|date=4 February 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=4 February 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Joyu|last1=Wang|first2=Jing|last2=Yang|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/deadly-coronavirus-forces-chinas-gambling-hub-to-shut-its-casinos-11580816447|title=Coronavirus: Bad Luck Hits Macau Casinos With 15-Day Shutdown|date=4 February 2020|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=4 February 2020|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
*[[2025]] &ndash; Ten people are killed in [[2025 Risbergska school shooting|a mass shooting]] at [[Campus Risbergska|an adult education centre]] in [[Örebro]], Sweden.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ahlander |first1=Johan |last2=Johnson |first2=Simon |title=Sweden's deadliest attack leaves 11 dead at Orebro adult school |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-police-respond-threat-deadly-violence-school-2025-02-04/ |website=Reuters |access-date=5 February 2025}}</ref>