Editing May 4 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1626]] &ndash; Dutch explorer [[Peter Minuit]] arrives in [[New Netherland]] (present day [[Manhattan Island]]) aboard the ''See Meeuw''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kroessler|first=Jeffrey A.|title=New York Year By Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis|location=New York|publisher=New York University Press|date=2002|isbn=9780814747513|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjWhBwAAQBAJ|page=9}}</ref>
*[[1738]] &ndash; The [[Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet|Imperial Theatrical School]], the first ballet school in Russia, is founded.<ref>{{cite book|last=Snodgrass|first=Mary Ellen|title=The Encyclopedia of World Ballet|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2015|isbn=9781442245259|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNvaCQAAQBAJ|page=175}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations|Rhode Island]] becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King [[George III]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lippitt|first=Charles Warren|title=The Rhode Island Declaration of Independence, May 4 1776|location=Providence, R.I|publisher=Rhode Island Citizens Historical Association|date=1906|oclc=1599182|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YsJOAQAAIAAJ|page=30}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]]: The [[Battle of Seringapatam]]: The siege of [[Seringapatam]] ends when the city is invaded and [[Tipu Sultan]] killed by the besieging British army, under the command of [[George Harris, 1st Baron Harris|General George Harris]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rosenberg|first=Chaim M.|title=Losing America, Conquering India: Lord Cornwallis and the Remaking of the British Empire|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Company|date=2017|isbn=9781476668123|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W34yDwAAQBAJ|page=130}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; Emperor [[Napoleon]] arrives at [[Portoferraio]] on the island of [[Elba]] to begin his exile.<ref>{{cite book|last=Maclachlan|first=Archibald Neil Campbell|title=Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba: Being a Journal of Occurrences in 1814-1815|location=London|publisher=J. Murray|date=1869|oclc=2580699|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D978YQmcB3gC|pages=214–216}}</ref>
*  1814   &ndash; King Ferdinand VII abolishes the [[Spanish Constitution of 1812]], returning Spain to [[Absolute monarchy|absolutism]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Piqueras|first=José Antonio|chapter=The End of the Legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery|title=Atlantic Transformations: Empire, Politics, and Slavery During the Nineteenth Century|editor-last=Tomich|editor-first=Dale W.|location=Albany, N.Y.|publisher=State University of New York Press|date=2020|isbn=9781438477855|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9u7cDwAAQBAJ|page=83}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; Formation of [[Ancient Order of Hibernians]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Watson|first1=William E.|last2=Halus|first2=Eugene J.|title=Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2015|isbn=9781610694667|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swPHEAAAQBAJ|page=171}}</ref>
*[[1859]] &ndash; The [[Cornwall Railway]] opens across the [[Royal Albert Bridge]] linking [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]] in England.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Campbell|first=J.M.|title=Some New Brunel Letters|journal=The Journal of Transport History|date=November 1958|issue=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6UJ6L326s0C&q=%22Cornwall+Railway%22+%22Royal+Albert+Bridge%22+%224+May%22+1859|page=201|doi=10.1177/002252665800300403 }}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; The four-day [[Naval Battle of Hakodate]] begins. The newly formed [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] defeats the remnants of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] navy in the [[Sea of Japan]] off the city of [[Hakodate]], leading to the surrender of the [[Ezo Republic]] on May 17.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|title=The Roots and Consequences of Civil Wars and Revolutions: Conflicts That Changed World History|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC=CLIO|date=2017|isbn=9781440842931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBjHEAAAQBAJ|pages=269–270}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; The [[National Association of Professional Base Ball Players|National Association]], the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Thorn|first=John|title=Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=2012|isbn=9780743294041|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqF84JTKCNoC|page=151}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Haymarket affair]]: In Chicago, United States, a [[Improvised explosive device|homemade bomb]] is thrown at [[Chicago Police Department|police]] officers trying to break up a labor rally, killing one officer. Ensuing gunfire leads to the deaths of a further seven officers and four civilians.<ref>{{cite book|last=Green|first=James R.|title=Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America|location=New York|publisher=Pantheon Books|date=2006|isbn=9780375422379|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi74wSzZhk8C|pages=5–8}}</ref>