1. In 1256, the Augustinian monastic order was constituted at the Lecce to monastery when Pope Alexander IV issued the papal bull Licet Ecclesiae Catholicae.

2. In 1303, the Flemings conquered Middelburg.

3. In 1415, religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.

4. In 1471, the Battle of Tewkesbury took place in Gloucestershire, England. It was the final battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York. Edward of Westminster, the Prince of Wales, was killed, and King Edward IV returned to his throne, restoring political stability to England until his death in 1483.

5. In 1493, Spanish Pope Alexander VI divided America between Spain and Portugal.

6. In 1535, five Carthusian monks from the London Charterhouse monastery were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England.

7. In 1540, Venice and Turkey signed the Treaty of Constantinople.

8. In 1572, Veere sided with the Geuzen.

9. In 1626, Peter Minuit became the director - general of New Netherland.

10. In 1634, Johan van Walbeeck's fleet departed for the West Indies.

11. In 1652, the Battle of Étampes took place. The French army under Turenne defeated the Fronde rebels.

12. In 1686, the municipality of Ilagan was founded in the Philippines.

13. In 1688, King James II of England, Scotland, and Ireland ordered his Declaration of Indulgence to be read in English churches.

14. In 1728, George Frideric Handel's opera Tolomeo, re di Egitto premiered in London.

15. In 1747, William IV, Prince of Orange, was appointed Stadtholder of Overijssel.

16. In 1776, Rhode Island declared independence from Great Britain.

17. In 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in Boston. James Bowdoin, John Adams, and Samuel Adams were among the founding members.

18. In 1780, Charles Bunbury on Diomed won the 1st Epsom Derby.

19. In 1783, William Herschel reported seeing a red glow near the lunar crater Aristarchus.

20. In 1799, during the Fourth Anglo - Mysore War, the Battle of Seringapatam ended the siege of the city. The besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris, assaulted the city, and Tipu Sultan, the Sultan of Mysore, was killed.

21. In 1805, Henry C. Overing bought 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx.

22. In 1814, the Bourbon reign was restored in France.

23. In 1814, King Ferdinand VII of Spain signed the Decree of May 4th, returning Spain to absolutism.

24. In 1818, the Netherlands and Britain signed a treaty against illegal slave handling.

25. In 1839, the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd. was formed.

26. In 1843, Great Britain annexed Natal.

27. In 1846, the US state of Michigan ended the death penalty.

28. In 1847, the state of New York created a Board of Commissioners of Emigration.

29. In 1858, during the War of Reform in Mexico, the liberals established their capital at Veracruz.

30. In 1859, the Cornwall Railway opened across the Royal Albert Bridge, linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.

31. In 1861, at Gretna, Louisiana, one of the first guns of the rebel navy was cast.

32. In 1862, the Battle of Williamsburg took place in Virginia.

33. In 1863, during the US Civil War, the Battle of Chancellorsville occurred, and there was an action at Salem Church. The Union army withdrew.

34. In 1864, there were actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia.

35. In 1865, the Battle of Citronelle took place in Alabama, and Richard Taylor surrendered.

36. In 1866, Woodward's Gardens opened to the public in San Francisco.

37. In 1868, the world's largest book, the Kuthodaw inscription shrines recording the whole of Buddhist scriptures on 729 marble tablets, was completed and opened to the public in Mandalay, Burma.

38. In 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first official baseball game, winning against the Great Western Base Ball Club, 45 - 9.

39. In 1869, the naval battle of Hakodate took place in Japan.

40. In 1871, the first baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players) was held. Fort Wayne won 2 - 0 against Cleveland. Deacon Jim White got the first hit, a double.

41. In 1883, John Gordon Cashman published the first edition of the Vicksburg Evening Post in Mississippi.

42. In 1886, the Haymarket Riot occurred in Chicago. A bomb killed 7 policemen.

43. In 1888, Italy and Spain signed a military covenant.

44. In 1893, cowboy Bill Pickett invented bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground.

45. In 1895, Wilhelm Kienzl's opera Der Evangelimann (The Evangelist) was first performed at the Neues Königliches Opernhaus in Berlin, Germany.

46. In 1896, the first edition of the London Daily Mail was published.

47. In 1897, the 23rd Kentucky Derby was held. Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II won in 2:12.5.

48. In 1898, the 24th Kentucky Derby was held. Willie Simms aboard Plaudit won in 2:09.

49. In 1899, the 25th Kentucky Derby was held. Fred Taral aboard Manuel won in 2:12.

50. In 1904, Charles Rolls met Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. They later formed the car manufacturer Rolls - Royce.