This Day In European History

17th August

Events
1743: The Peace of Abo ends the Russo-Swedish war of 1741-3.
1812: Battle of Smolensk; Napoleon defeats Russia.
1836: Britain's first national Registrar of births, deaths and marriages.
1896: The first fatal collision between a car and a pedestrian; the victim was Mrs. Bridget Driscoll in England.

Births
1601: Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician.
1629: King John III Sobieski of Poland.
1753: Josef Dobrovský, Hungarian scholar.

Deaths
1510: Richard Empson, English minister, executed.
1676: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German novelist.
1786: King Frederick II the Great of Prussia.

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