This Day In European History

8th April

Events
1141: Empress Matilda of the Holy Roman Empire is proclaimed Queen of England; civil war with King Stephen ensues.
1364: King Charles V of France, the Wise, crowned.
1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain.
1546: The Council of Trent rules that the Apocrypha is part of the Bible.
1838: The Great Western, the then largest ship in the world and the first specific oceanic steamship, is launched from Bristol; it was designed by England's Brunel.
1886: The 'dry cell' battery is patented in Germany by Carl Gassner.
1904: The Entente Cordial signed by England and France.
1939: King Zog of Albania abdicates.

Births
1692: Guiseppe Tartini, Italian composer.
1859: Edmund Husserl, German founder of phenomenology.

Deaths
1848: Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer.
1973: Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist.

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