This Week in European History
Sunday February 25, 2007
This week the first Christian English king was born, the first Grand National horse race was run (in 1839) and there's even information about leap year events too.
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Re the article on the Fr Rev: Louis XVI was executed in Jan. of 1793.
Although the summary doesn’t state when Louis XVI was executed, I can see how people might misinterpret it as being in 1792; I’ll make a small change.