Today is Tuesday, April 5, the 97th day of 2016. There are 269 days left in the year.
1603 — New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London
1614 — Second parliament of King James I begins session
1614 — Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
1621 — Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1648 — Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people’s uprising in Naples
1722 — Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
1739 — French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty
1768 — First U.S. Chamber of Commerce forms in New York
1792 — George Washington casts first presidential veto