This Day in History
27 Apr 1296
Battle of Dunbar The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England
27 Apr 1518
Treaty of St Truiden anti-French Trapdoors and Bourgondisch covenant
27 Apr 1522
Battle of Bicocca a combined French and Venetian force is decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army
27 Apr 1539
Re-founding of the city of Bogot New Granada (nowadays Colombia) by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastin de Belalczar.
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