This Day In European History

9th April

Events
1241: The Battle at the Wahlstadt; Mongols forces defeat a Polish army.
1770 James Cook, British explorer, arrives in Botany Bay, Australia.
1914: London holds the premier of the first colour feature film: 'The World, the Flesh and the Devil.'

Births
1649: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, English royal pretender.
1806: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer.
1821: Charles Baudelaire, French poet.
1865: Erich Ludendorff, German WW1 Field Marshall.
1872: Léon Blum, French prime minister from 1936-7.

Deaths
491: Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno.
1483: King Edward IV of England.
1492: Lorenzo d'Medici, Florentine ruler.
1553: François Rabelais, French writer.
1588: Paolo Veronese, Venetian artist.
1626: Francis Bacon, English chancellor and philosopher, from a cold caught stuffing a chicken with snow in a refrigeration experiment.
1807: John Opie, English painter.
1882: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter and poet.

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