This Day In European History
23rd April
Events1014: The Battle of Clontarf; Irish forces under Brian Boru defeat Viking troops and Irish rebels, but Boru is killed.
1509: King Henry VIII accedes to the throne.
1521: The army of Comunero leader Juan de Padilla is defeated.
1661: King Charles II of England is crowned, ending the Interregnum.
1702: The official start of The War of the Spanish Succession.
1983: A magazine announces it has discovered Hitler's diaries; they are fakes.
Births
1564: William Shakespeare, English playwright.
1775: Joseph William Turner, English painter.
1858: Max Planck, German physicist.
1891: Sergey Prokofiev, Russian composer.
Deaths
1014: King Brian Boru of Ireland.
1016: King Aethelred II, 'the Unready'.
1605: Tsar Boris Godunov of Muscovy.
1616: William Shakespeare, English playwright.
1616: Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish playwright.
1695: Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet.
1823: Joseph Nollekens, British sculptor.
1850: William Wordsworth, British poet.
1915: Rupert Brooke, British poet.
