📅 Today in HistoryApril 20

After an eight-year conflict, Baldwin III of Jerusalem wins sole control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende.

The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.

Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.

English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).

Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740-57).

The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.

George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.

France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.

The Septinsular Republic is established.