This Day In European History

9th August

Events
480 BC: The Battle of Thermopylae.
378: The Battle of Adrianople between the Romans and Goths.
48 BCE: The Battle of Pharsalus; Caesar defeats Pompey.
1500: Venetian held Modon is captured by the Ottomans via a combined sea and land attack; two Venetian ports follow soon after.
1655: Tsar Alexis I captures Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
1830: King Louis-Philippe of France is proclaimed.
1870: The Married Women's Property Act allows English wives to own their own property.
1902: Britain's King Edward VII crowned.

Births
1593: Isaak Walton, English author of 'The Compleat Angler'.
1757: Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer.
1776: Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist.
1896: Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist.
1899: P. L. Travers, English writer.

Deaths
378: Roman Emperor Valens.
803: Byzantine Empress Irene.
1048: Pope Damasus II, Pope for only 23 days.
1516: Hiëronymus Bosch, Dutch painter.
1653: Maarten Tromp, Dutch Admiral.

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