Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/October/October 4
- 1879 – The American anarchist newspaper Freiheit (pictured) is first published by editor Johann Most
- 1884 – Jun Tsuji (d. 1944), Japanese avant garde writer and translator of Max Stirner's The Ego and its Own into Japanese is born in Tokyo
- 1893 – The trial of Emma Goldman for aiding and abetting an unlawful assemblage begins in New York
- 1917 – The trial of the French anarchist pacifist publishers of a clandestine issue of Le Libertaire begins in Paris