History Trivia

May 4, 1256 The Augustinian monastic order was constituted at the Lecceto Monastery in Tuscany when Pope Alexander IV issued a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. 1415 Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. 1471 Wars of the Roses: the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the battle of Tewkesbury. 1493 Pope Alexander VI divided the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation