This Day In European History
29th December
Events1675: The British government attempts to close all of London's coffee houses because they are full of subversives.
Births
1552: Henri I de Bourbon, Prince of Conde and Huguenot leader.
1709: Empress Elizabeth of Russia.
1721: Jeanne Antoinette, Marquise de Pompadour, French mistress and patron.
1766: Charles Macintosh, Scottish inventor.
1809: William Gladstone, British prime minister.
1876: Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist.
Deaths
1170: English Archbishop Thomas Beckett, murdered by four knights.
1618: Walter Raleigh, executed.
1689: Thomas Sydenham, English physician.
1825: Jacques-Louis David, French painter.
1986: Harold Macmillan, British prime minister.
