📅 Today in HistoryMay 4

The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

Religious reformer John Wycliffe is condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance.

Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (27 April O.S.).

Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.

In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.

Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.

The Imperial Theatrical School, the first ballet school in Russia, is founded.

Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.

Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.