This Day In European History

30th August

Events
1146: In an attempt to end wars, a European council bans crossbows. It doesn't work.
1464: Pope Paul II is elected Pope.
1860: Britain's first tramline opens.
1941: The German siege of Leningrad begins.

Births
1334: King Pedro the Cruel of Leon and Castile.
1797: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein.
1844: Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer.

Deaths
30 BCE: Mark Anthony, Roman statesman and general.
30 BCE: Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
526: King Theodoric the Great of the Ostrogoths.
1181: Pope Alexander III.
1723: Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist.

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