WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2016

Today is Wednesday, May 4, the 126th day of 2016. There are 240 days left in the year.

1303 — Flemings conquers Middelburg

1494 — Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica

1540 — Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

1572 — Veere sides with Geuzen

1626 — Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons

1626 — Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands

1634 — Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies

1652 — Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels

1715 — French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella (Paris France)