This Day In European History

1st February

Events
1720: The Treaty of Stockholm between Sweden and Prussia. Sweden gets 2 millions thalers and military support in return for giving Prussia Pomerania.
1884 The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

Births
1805: Auguste Blanqui, French socialist.
1874: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer.
1915: Stanley Matthews, English footballer.
1931: Boris Yeltsin, Russian president.

Deaths
523: St. Brigit of Ireland.
1328: King Charles IV of France.
1691: Pope Alexander VIII.
1851: Mary Shelley, English writer and creator of Frankenstein.
1908: King Carlos I of Portugal, assassinated.

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