What happened on 4 February?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1936 Keynes publishes The General Theory The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money — Keynes's argument that aggregate demand drives output and employment, justifying counter-cyclical fiscal policy. Foundational
2. 1945 Yalta Conference Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Crimea to plan the defeat of Germany and the postwar order, shaping the division of Europe.
3. 1899 Philippine-American War Filipino republicans fight the US occupation; the US declares the war over on 4 July 1902, though resistance continues for years in parts of the islands.
4. 1913 Born: Rosa Parks African-American activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat catalysed the boycott.
5. 1794 French abolition of slavery (1794) National Convention abolishes slavery in all French territories; Toussaint Louverture switches from Spanish to French allegiance.
6. 1922 Chauri Chaura incident Crowd burns police station; Gandhi suspends Non-cooperation Movement.
7. 2004 Facebook founded Harvard students start a social network that goes on to billions of users.
8. 2013 Richard III's remains identified in Leicester DNA and bone analysis confirm that a curved-spined skeleton dug up beneath a Leicester council car park, on the site of the lost Greyfriars church, is the last Plantagenet king; he
9. 1948 Independence of Ceylon Ceylon becomes a self-governing dominion after 152 years of British rule — the first Crown colony to reach independence by constitutional steps.
10. 1520 Mary Boleyn marries William Carey Henry VIII attends the Greenwich wedding of his courtier William Carey to Anne Boleyn's elder sister — who soon becomes the king's mistress.