In February 1883, just before the disputed Fourth Test, a velvet bag made by Mrs Ann Fletcher, the daughter of Joseph Hines Clarke and Marion Wright, both of Dublin, was given to Bligh to contain the urn.

Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten: off-spinner Jim Laker's monumental effort at Old Trafford when he bowled 68 of 191 overs to take 19 out of 20 possible Australian wickets in the Fourth Test.

After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

His leg spin yielded ten wickets at 30. 60, with a best of 4 / 118 in the Fourth Test in Adelaide when he was given a heavy workload, totalling 58 overs, when Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller broke down during the match.

He was recalled immediately for the Fourth Test, but was dropped for the Fifth Test after managing seven runs in his only innings and going wicketless.

He followed this with 5 / 114 in a drawn Third Test, before a match-winning all round performance in the Fourth Test in Johannesburg.

Benaud produced an all-round performance of 46, 5 / 91 and 4 / 82 in the Fourth Test in Adelaide to take an unassailable 3-0 series lead and regain the Ashes, before scoring 64 and match figures of 5 / 57 to help take the Fifth Test and a 4-0 series result.

He returned to form with 5 / 43 and 3 / 43 as India were defeated by an innings after being forced to follow on in the Fourth Test in Madras.

With the series balanced at 1-1, the Fourth Test at Old Trafford initially brought no improvement, with Benaud scoring 2 and taking 0 / 80 in the first innings.

Solid form for NSW in 1988 – 89 resulted in Taylor's selection for his Test debut in the Fourth Test against the West Indies at the SCG, replacing middle-order batsman Graeme Wood.

He ended the run with a rear-guard innings of 76 in the second innings of the Fourth Test at Barbados.

He scored half-centuries in each of the next two Tests before striking 100 in the second innings of the Fourth Test at Adelaide.

After Australia failed by one run to win the Fourth Test and thus the series, Taylor was dropped for the deciding Test at Perth, having failed to make double figures in either innings.

Australia won the Third and Fourth Tests at Bramall Lane and Old Trafford respectively.

In 1202, soldiers assembled at Venice launched the Fourth Crusade.

In 148 BC, in what the Romans called the Fourth Macedonian War, he was defeated by the Roman praetor Q. Caecilius Metellus ( 148 ) at the Second Battle of Pydna, and fled to Thrace, whose prince gave him up to Rome, thus marking the final end to Andriskos ' reign of Macedonia.

At the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451, Constantinople was given jurisdiction over three dioceses for the reason that the city was " the residence of the emperor and senate ".

Under the Third, Fourth and Fifth republics, humiliating practices aimed at stamping out the Breton language and culture prevailed in state schools until the late 1960s.

As the Russian Revolution of 1905 progressed, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and smaller non-Russian social democratic parties operating within the Russian Empire attempted to reunify at the Fourth ( Unification ) Congress of the RSDLP held at Folkets hus, Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, April 1906.

In 1215 he went to Rome in order to report to the Curia on the condition and prospects of his mission, and was consecrated first " Bishop of Prussia " at the Fourth Council of the Lateran.

The current definition, sometimes known as the metric carat, was adopted in 1907 at the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Measures, and soon afterward in many countries around the world.

However, attempts made in closed-door sessions at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China's Central Committee in September 2009 to grapple with these problems produced inconclusive results, although a directive which requires disclosure of investments and property holdings by party and governmental officials was passed.

In 1215, the bishops of the Catholic Church met at the Fourth Council of the Lateran under Pope Innocent III.

In December 1995, at the Fourth WWW Conference in Boston, he was the first recipient of what would later become the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award.

* 1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto ( performed by Beethoven himself ) and Choral Fantasy ( with Beethoven at the piano ).

Originally in Manhattan at 432 Fourth Avenue, the DC Comics offices have been located at 480 and later 575 Lexington Avenue ; 909 Third Avenue ; 75 Rockefeller Plaza ; 666 Fifth Avenue ; and 1325 Avenue of the Americas.

He then went on to serve as Fourth Sea Lord at the Admiralty from June 1950 to April 1952 and then returned to the Mediterranean to serve as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from June 1952.

* 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.

The Fourth Council of the Lateran was convoked by Pope Innocent III with the papal bull of April 19, 1213, and the Council gathered at Rome's Lateran Palace beginning November 11, 1215.

He hit 31 not out in the second Test against New Zealand, innings in Melbourne as Australia levelled the series 1 – 1 and scored 25 and 47 in the drawn Fourth Test in Sydney to end as the leading run-scorer for the series, with 706 runs at 100. 85.

England won the Second Test at Melbourne and Australia the Third Test at Sydney and it was in the Fourth Test at Adelaide that he came into his own.

* Prof David Karoly-Professor of Meteorology and Federation Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne ; Lead Author and Review Editor, Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

His only fifty was an 83 in the first innings of the Fourth Test in Melbourne.

Johnston missed the Fourth Test in Adelaide due to injury but returned for the Fifth Test in Melbourne where he scored 23 not out and took match figures of 2 / 29 in another innings victory and Australia ended the summer with a 4 – 0 win.

In the Fourth Test in Melbourne, Johnston took match figures of 5 / 110, removing Weekes in both innings, before coming to the crease in the second innings to partner Doug Ring.

The teams returned to Melbourne for the Fourth Test.

Hill attempts to stop a pitch invading dog in the Fourth Test in Melbourne in 1908.

Matters came to a head when Hill sent a telegram to fellow selector, Peter McAlister, urging the inclusion of the New South Wales all-rounder Charlie Macartney in the team for the Fourth Test in Melbourne.

He was first picked for the Australia against Pakistan in the Fourth Test at Melbourne in 1983-84, taking 2 / 95 and 2 / 48, running out Zaheer Abbas in the first innings and bowling him in the second.

The Fourth Test at Melbourne was a debacle as the Australian batsmen threw their wickets away to Ian Botham ( 5 / 41 ) and Gladstone Small ( 5 / 48 ) and losing inside three days.