A Daily Dose of History (20 Apr 2025) Today's historical events:

• The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
• 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 is observed over Stockholm, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
• Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
• 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).
• Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
• 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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