History Trivia - Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians at the battle of Tewkesbury

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.

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.

History Trivia - The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed

April 13

1250 The Seventh Crusade was defeated in Egypt; Louis IX of France was captured.

1256 The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issued a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

1598 Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)