This Day In European History
31st August
Events1422: King Henry VI of England ascends to the throne; he is nine months old.
1591: The Battle of Flores.
1871: Adolphe Thiers is elected the first president of France's Third Republic.
1888: Jack the Ripper kills Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, possibly his first victim.
1990: The Unification of East and West Germany.
Births
12: Roman Emperor Caligula.
161: Roman Emperor Commodius.
1811: Théophile Gautier, French writer.
1821: Herman von Helmholtz, German physicist.
1870: Maria Montessori, Italian education reformer.
1880: Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
Deaths
651: St. Aidan of Lindisfarne.
1057: Count Leofric of Mercia, husband of Lady Godiva.
1422: King Henry V of England.
1688: John Bunyan, English preacher and writer.
1811: Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator.
1864: Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist.
1867: Charles Baudelaire, French poet.
1997: Diana, Princess of Wales.
