Today is Thursday, April 7, the 99th day of 2016. There are 267 days left in the year.
1118 — Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 — Prague U, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1456 — Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
1498 — Crowd storms Savonarola’s convent San Marco Florence Italy
1509 — France declares war on Venice
1521 — Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1652 — Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1655 — Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1712 — Slave revolt in New York
1724 — Bach’s “John Passion” premieres in Leipzig