Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 4
March 4: St. Casimir's Day in Lithuania and Poland
- 1461 - The Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI was deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then became King Edward IV.
- 1825 - Despite having lost in both the electoral and popular votes in the 1824 presidential election, John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as the sixth President of the United States.
- 1877 - Emile Berliner invented the microphone.
- 1975 - Actor and director Charlie Chaplin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
- 1980 - Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union was elected to head the first government in Zimbabwe.