This Day In European History

13th December

Events
1545: The Council of Trent begins, an attempt by the Papacy to counter the Reformation.
1570: The Peace of Stettin ends the 'War of the Three Crowns' between Sweden and Denmark-Norway.
1577: Francis Drake leaves England on a global circumnavigation in the Golden Hind.
1642: Dutchman Abel Tasman becomes the first documented European to see New Zealand.
1789: The United States of Belgium declares its independence.
1847: Wuthering Heights is published by Emily Bronte.
1967: Failed coup in Greece.

Births
1520: Pope Sixtus V.
1553: King Henry IV of France.
1585: William Drummond, Scottish poet.
1724: Franz Aepinus, German physicist.
1797: Heinrich Heine, German poet.
1816: Werner von Siemens, German engineer.

Deaths
1124: Pope Calixtus II.
1565: Konrad Gesner, Swiss physician.
1603: Francois Viete, French mathematician.
1729: Anthony Collins, English thinker.
1769: Christian Gellert, German poet.
1784: Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer.

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