46 BCE
Battle of Ruspina
Battle · North Africa
On this day
4 January
192 events in the atlas are dated to 4 January, from 46 BCE to 2025. The best known come first; below them is every one, age by age, the most significant first.
- 192 events
- 46 BCE – 2025 CE
The best known
From every age and part of the world1777
Forage War
War · North America
1894
Franco-Russian Alliance
Treaty · Europe
1969
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Treaty
1989
murder of Junko Furuta
Natural disaster · East Asia
2004
South Thailand insurgency
Attack · Southeast Asia
Antiquity
to 500 CE · 1 eventThe Middle Ages
501 – 1500 CE · 3 eventsEarly modern times
1501 – 1800 · 18 events- 1717Triple AllianceTreaty · Europe
- 1777Forage WarWar · North America
- 16501650 Tabriz earthquakeNatural disaster · Middle East
- 1716Founding of GuadalupeFounding · Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
- 1536Founding of BăileștiFounding · Europe
- 1761Arabian expeditionExploration · 1761 – 1767
- 1547Founding of BucovățFounding · Europe
- 1523Founding of TodireniFounding · Europe
- 1574Founding of GabruFounding · Europe
- 1639solar eclipse of January 4, 1639Event · Europe
The 19th century
1801 – 1900 · 28 events- 1894Franco-Russian AllianceTreaty · Europe
- 1896Founding of UtahFounding · North America
- 1831Federal pactTreaty · South America
- 18641864 eruption of KeludNatural disaster · Southeast Asia
- 1801Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1801Treaty
- 1894Founding of Saint-Benoît-LabreFounding · North America
- 1894Construction of Akatsuka StationConstruction · East Asia
- 1894Construction of Karibasawa StationConstruction · East Asia
- 1894Construction of Hon-Hachinohe StationConstruction · East Asia
- 1894Founding of Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-LoupFounding · North America
The 20th century
1901 – 2000 · 79 events- 1969International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial DiscriminationTreaty
- 1989murder of Junko FurutaNatural disaster · East Asia
- 1944Operation TempestEvent · Europe
- 1980KOSPIEvent · East Asia
- 19701970 Yunnan earthquakeNatural disaster · East Asia
- 19701970 Tonghai earthquakeNatural disaster · East Asia
- 1989Gulf of Sidra incidentBattle · North Africa
- 1948Founding of MyanmarFounding · Southeast Asia
- 1948Burmese Declaration of IndependenceEvent · Southeast Asia
- 1976Reavey and O'Dowd killingsEvent · Europe
The 21st century
since 2001 · 63 events- 2004South Thailand insurgencyAttack · Southeast Asia
- 20232023 Israeli judicial reformEvent · Middle East
- 2024Perry High School shootingNatural disaster · North America
- 2011solar eclipse of January 4, 2011Event · Europe
- 20202019–20 Australian region cyclone seasonEvent · Oceania
- 2018Murder of Zainab AnsariNatural disaster · South Asia
- 20042004 Georgian presidential electionElection · Middle East
- 2018Hennenman–Kroonstad train crashAccident · Sub-Saharan Africa
- 2021January 4th 2021 Boğaziçi University protestsProtest · Middle East
- 20232023 Enoch, Utah shootingAttack · North America
About the dates
Each event is listed under the date its sources give, as its page shows it. Before 1582, and in some countries later (Britain until 1752, Russia until 1918), that is a date of the Julian calendar, as on Wikipedia’s pages for each day.