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Sapienza University: A Medieval Center of Learning (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (20 Apr 2026)
Today's historical events:
The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
The sun dog phenomenon is observed over Stockholm, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
Admiral Robert Blake destroys a…
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