On April 20, history records 47 notable events, 184 famous births and 72 deaths, spanning the years 1303 to 1770.
Events on this day include: The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. (1303); Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople. (1453).
Notable people born on April 20 include Pietro Aretino (1492), Johannes Agricola (1494), Renata of Lorraine (1544).
Notable figures who died on this day include Cædwalla of Wessex (689), Taichō (767), Emperor Xizong of Tang (888).
Events on 20 April 47
See all →Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
The sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire 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.
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Birthdays on 20 April 184
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Deaths on 20 April 72
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