This Day In European History

12th April

Events
1204: Constantinople, Christian capital of Byzantium, falls to the armies of the Fourth Crusade.
1567: The Earl of Bothwell is found not guilty of the murder of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Bothwell and Mary then marry...
1606: King James I of England and VI of Scotland introduces a new British flag combining those of England and Scotland.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to orbit the earth in space and return safely.
1992: Euro-Disney opens in France.

Births
1577: King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway.

Deaths
1704: Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, French writer.

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