This Day In European History

21st August

Events
1808: The Battle of Vimiero, the first battle in the Peninsular War; Wellington's British defeat Junot's French.
1871: Louis Pasteur patents Pasteurisation.
1911 The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris; it's recovered in 1913.
1976: Britain's first woman fire-fighter begins service.

Births
1165: King Philip II of France.
1567: St. Francis de Sales.
1670: James Fitzjames, English noble and French marshal.
1725: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter.
1754: William Murdoch, Scottish engineer.
1765: King William IV of Britain.
1798: Jules Michelet, French historian.

Deaths
1614: Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian noble.
1649: Richard Crashaw, English poet.
1814: Benjamin Thompson, English physicist.

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