This Day In European History

19th December

Events
1154: Henry II becomes King of England.
1562: The Battle of Dreux.
1783: A 24 year old William Pitt the Younger becomes British Prime Minister.
1863: Linoleum is patented in London by Frederick Walton.

Births
1906: Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet statesman.

Deaths
1741: Vitus Bering, Danish navigator.
1848: Emily Brontë, English author.
1851: J. M. W. Turner, English painter.
1860: James Andrew Dalhousie, British colonial governor.

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