WHAT HAPPENED ON 4. MAY
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The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. (4. May 1256)

Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. (4. May 1415)

Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (4. May 1436)

Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales. (4. May 1471)

Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. (4. May 1493)

Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. (4. May 1626)

King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. (4. May 1675)

The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines. (4. May 1686)

Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. (4. May 1776)

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. (4. May 1799)

Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. (4. May 1814)

King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism. (4. May 1814)

Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians (4. May 1836)

The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England. (4. May 1859)

The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan. (4. May 1869)

The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (4. May 1871)

Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd. (4. May 1886)

8 fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, County Galway, Ireland in the Galway Bay drowning tragedy. (4. May 1902)

The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal. (4. May 1904)

Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. (4. May 1904)