Today is Friday, April 15, the 107th day of 2016. There are 259 days left in the year.
1471— Battle of Barnet-King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick
1536 — English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries
1629 — England & France sign Peace of Susa
1671 — Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin
1756 — Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia Indians
1775 — First abolitionist society in U.S. organizes in Philadelphia, Pa.
1777 — New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 — France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1799 — Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews