This Day In European History

16th August

Events
1513: Battle of the Spurs: A combined Anglo-Imperial force defeat France.
1743: The rules of boxing are laid down.
1819: The Peterloo Massacre; British soldiers fire into a crowd listening to speeches on government reform; eleven die and four hundred are injured.
1960: The independence of Cyprus.

Births
1832: Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist.
1845: Gabriel Lippman, French physicist.

Deaths
1528: Odet de Foix-Lautrec, French commander.
1657: Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Cossack leader.
1661: Thomas Fuller, English scholar.
1705: Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician.
1893: Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist.
1899: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist.

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