Today is Tuesday, April 26, the 118th day of 2016. There are 248 days left in the year.
1478 — Easter is celebrated for the first time
1514 — Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn
1532 — Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna
1564 — William Shakespeare baptized
1654 — Jews are expelled from Brazil
1655 — Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesant’s desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1677 — Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck
1709 — Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1721 — Smallpox vaccination first administrated