A Daily Dose of History (04 May 2024) Today's historical events:

• The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
• Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
• Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
• Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
• Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
• The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
• Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• 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.
• Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
• King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism.
• Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians

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