Today is Tuesday, April 19, the 111th day of 2016. There are 255 days left in the year.
1529 — Second Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
1591 — Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France
1619 — Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1713 — Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic Sanctions
1770 — Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1770 — Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia
1775 — Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 — Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot “heard round the world”
1782 — Netherlands recognizes U.S.
1825 — 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay