This Day in History
Today: April 15, 2026
769
The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.[1]
1071
Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.[2]
1450
Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.[3]
1632
Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.[4]
1642
Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.[5]
1715
The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.[6]
1736
Foundation of the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica.
1738
Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives its premiere performance in London, England.[7]
1755
Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.[8]
1817
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.[9]
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