This Day In European History

7th April

Events
1498: King Louis XII, Duke of Orleans, succeeds to the French throne; his claim on Milan escalates with him to become a royal matter.
1853: Queen Victoria famously uses chloroform to numb the pain of childbirth.

Births
1506: St. Francois Xavier, Spanish missionary.
1726: Charles Burney, English composer.
1727: Michel Adanson, French botanist.
1770: William Wordsworth, English poet.
1836: William Godwin, English philosopher.
1884: Bronislaw Malinowski, Anglo-Polish anthropologist.

Deaths
1498: King Charles VIII of France.
1614: El Greco, Greco-Spanish painter.
1739: Dick Turpin, hanged.

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