This Day In European History

21st December

Events
1785: England's Prince of Wales, the future King George IV, marries Maria Fitzherbert in secret.
1894: Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason in France despite being innocent.
1988: The Lockerbie Disaster: terrorists blow up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, killing 270.

Births
1573: Mathurin Régnier, French poet.
1773: Robert Brown, Scottish botanist.
1795: Leopold von Ranke, German historian.
1804: Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and writer.
1842: Peter Kropotkin, Russian revolutionary.
1879: Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator.
1892: Rebecca West, British journalist.
1905: Anthony Powell, English author.

Deaths
882: Hincmar of Reims, Archbishop and scholar.
1549: Margaret d'Angoulême, Queen consort of King Henry II of Navare and intellectual.
1824: James Parkinson, English physician.

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