This Day In European History

3rd April

Events
999: Sylvester II becomes the first Frenchman elected Pope.
1043: King Edward the Confessor of England crowned.
1367: The Battle of Nájera/ Navarette; English forces defeat a Franco-Castilian alliance.
1721 Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Britain.
1789: King Gustav III of Sweden passes an act granting him absolute power; he is assassinated just over three years later.
1794: Battle of Raclawice; Polish general and American Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko defeats a Russian army.
1922: Josef Stalin is made General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.alkland Islands which are owned by Britain; war ensues.

Births
1593: George Herbert, English poet.
1881: Alcide de Gasperi, Italian Prime Minister 1945 - 53.

Deaths
1682: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter.
1862: James Clark Ross, British explorer.
1897: Johannes Brahms, German composer.

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