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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.
Year 1415
Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
Year 1436
Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
Year 1471
Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
Year 1493
Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
Year 1626
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
Year 1675
King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Year 1776
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
Year 1799
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.
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