This Day In European History

25th April

Events
799: Pope Leo III is attacked by enemies intent on blinding him; he escapes.
1382: A French alchemist called Nicholas Flamel claims to have produced gold from mercury.
1792: Jacques Pelletier becomes the first victim of the guillotine in France.
1915: The Gallipoli landings.
1953: The discovery of DNA is announced by Englishman Francis Crick and American James Watson.

Births
1214: King Louis IX of France.
1284 King Edward II of England.
1599: Oliver Cromwell, British commander and Lord Protector.
1769: Marc Isambard Brunel, Franco-British engineer.
1874: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian radio inventor.
1896: Henry de Montherlant, French writer.

Deaths
1595: Torquato Tasso, Italian writer.
1744: Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor of the Celsius temperature scale.
1800: William Cowper, English poet.
1840: Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician.
1878: Anna Sewell, British novelist.

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