This Day In European History

6th August

Events
1623: Pope Urban VIII is elected.
1647: Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army enter London and take control of Parliament.
1806: The Holy Roman Empire ends as Emperor Francis II abdicates.
1859: Beechams uses what is believed to be the first modern advertising slogan.
1962: Jamaica becomes independent from Britain.

Births
1651: Francois de la Mothe-Fenelon, French writer.
1789: Friedrich List, German economist.
1809: Alfred Tennyson, English poet.
1881: Alexander Fleming, Scottish discoverer of Penicillin.

Deaths
258: Pope Sixtus II.
523: Pope Hormisdas, Italian Pope.
1221: St. Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans.
1623: Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare.
1637: Ben Johnson, English playwright.
1660: Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter.
1817: Pierre Samuel Du pont de Nemours, French economist.

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