Today is Wednesday, April 20, the 112nd day of 2016. There are 254 days left in the year.
1505 — Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1551 — John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal
1650 — VOC-management sets new guidelines
1653 — Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1657 — Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1715 — Nicholas Rowe’s "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray," premieres in London
1770 — Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
1775 — British begin siege of Boston
1777 — New York adopts new constitution as an independent state