May 4

May 4

<table><thead><tr><th>May 4 in recent years</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>  2025 (Sunday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2024 (Saturday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2023 (Thursday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2022 (Wednesday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2021 (Tuesday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2020 (Monday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2019 (Saturday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2018 (Friday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2017 (Thursday)</td></tr><tr><td>  2016 (Wednesday)</td></tr></tbody></table>

May 4

May 4 is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 241 days remain until the end of the year.

Pre-1600

• (/wiki/1256) – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. • (/wiki/1415) – Religious reformer John Wycliffe is condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance. • (/wiki/1436) – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (27 April O.S.). • (/wiki/1471) – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. • (/wiki/1493) – In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.

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