This Day In European History

11th February

Events
1810: Napoleon Bonaparte marries Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, his second wife.
1858 Saint Bernadette Soubiroux has her first visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes.
1873: Spain's King Amadeo I abdicates.
1929: The Lateran Treaty creates the Vatican City State.

Births
1535: Pope Gregory XIV.
1657: Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist.
1800: William Henry Fox Talbot, English scientist and archaeologist.

Deaths
1650: Rene Descartes, French philosopher.
1730: Tsar Peter II of Russia.
1868: Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, French physicist.
1879: Honore Daumier, French caricaturist.

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