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47 events · 72 deaths · 184 births

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Events on 20 April 47

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Year 1303

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

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Year 1453

Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.

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Year 1534

Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Year 1535

The sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.

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Year 1653

Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.

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Year 1657

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

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Year 1657

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

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Year 1689

Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.

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Year 1752

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

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Year 1770

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

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Public Holidays Around The World On This Day 2

🇸🇿 Eswatini · King's Birthday (observed)

🇲🇩 Moldova · Day of Rejoicing

Birthdays on 20 April 184

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Pietro Aretino

b. 1492 – d. 1556

Pietro Aretino, Italian author, playwright, and poet (d. 1556)

Johannes Agricola

b. 1494 – d. 1566

Johannes Agricola, German theologian and academic (b. 1494)

Renata of Lorraine

b. 1544 – d. 1602

Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)

Rose of Lima

b. 1586 – d. 1617

Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)

Emperor Go-Kōmyō

b. 1633 – d. 1654

Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1654)

Charles Plumier

b. 1646 – d. 1704

Charles Plumier, French botanist and author (d. 1704)

William Bedloe

b. 1650 – d. 1680

William Bedloe, English spy (b. 1650)

David Brainerd

b. 1718 – d. 1747

David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)

Cornelius Harnett

b. 1723 – d. 1781

Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (b. 1723)

Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau

b. 1727 – d. 1794

Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)

Philippe Pinel

b. 1745 – d. 1826

Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (d. 1826)

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Georg Michael Telemann

b. 1748 – d. 1831

Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian (d. 1831)

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Deaths on 20 April 72

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Cædwalla of Wessex

d. 689 (b. 659)

Cædwalla, king of Wessex (b. 659)

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Taichō

d. 767 (b. 682)

Taichō, Japanese monk and scholar (d. 767)

Emperor Xizong of Tang

d. 888 (b. 862)

Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)

Peter Bartholomew

d. 1099 (b. 1061)

Peter Bartholomew (b. 1061)

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Antipope Victor IV (1159-1164)

d. 1164

Antipope Victor IV

Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

d. 1176 (b. 1130)

Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (b. 1130)

Güyük Khan

d. 1248 (b. 1206)

Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1206)

Hōjō Tokimune

d. 1284 (b. 1251)

Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (b. 1251)

Pope Clement V

d. 1314 (b. 1264)

Pope Clement V (b. 1264)

Simon Rinalducci

d. 1322

Simon Rinalducci, Italian Augustinian friar

Zhengde Emperor

d. 1521 (b. 1491)

Zhengde, Chinese emperor (b. 1491)

Elizabeth Barton

d. 1534 (b. 1506)

Elizabeth Barton, English nun and martyr (b. 1506)

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