This Day In European History

23rd August

Events
410: The Visigoths sack Rome.
476: Odoacer is proclaimed King of Italy by his army.
1939: Germany and the USSR sign a non-aggression pact.
1940: London suffers the first night of Nazi bombing: the 'blitz'.

Births
1524: François Hotman, French scholar.
1754: King Louis XVI of France.
1760: Pope Leo XII.
1769: Georges Cuvier, French zoologist.
1864: Eleuthérios Venizélos, Greek prime minister.

Deaths
93: Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain.
1305: William Wallace, Scottish noble, executed.
1806: Charles de Coulomb, French physicist.

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