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.
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