This Day In European History

13th August

Events
523: Pope John I is elected.
1099: Pope Paschal II is elected.
1624: Cardinal Richelieu is appointed First Minister of France.
1704: The Battle of Blenheim; a combined British, Dutch and German army defeats a force of French and Bavarians.
1849: Lajos Kossuth and the army of the Hungarian Republic are forced into surrender after trying to resist overwhelming Austro-Russian opposition.
1876: Wagner's Ring Cycle premiers.
1961: East Germany starts construction of the Berlin Wall.
1964: Britain's last hangings.

Births
1422: William Caxton, English printer.
1655: Johann Christoph Denner, German clarinet inventor.
1700: Count Heinrich of Brühl, ruler of Saxony.
1756: James Gillray, English caricaturist.
1814: Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist.
1866: Giovanni Agnelli, Italian car manufacturer.
1871: Karl Liebknecht, German Spartacist co-founder.
1888: John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor of the television.

Deaths
587: St. Radegund.
1826: René-Théophile Laënnec, French stethoscope inventor.
1863: Eugène Delacroix, French painter.
1865: Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, Hungarian physician.
1896: John Millais, English painter.
1910: Florence Nightingale, British nursing pioneer.

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