This Day In European History

12th February

Events
1429: Battle of the Herrings; a French force attacking an English food shipment is defeated.
1658: Swedish forces besiege the Danish capital Copenhagen by marching across a frozen sea.

Births
1567: Thomas Campion, English composer.
1760: Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian composer.
1809: Charles Darwin, evolutionary pioneer.
1857: Eugene Atget, French photographer.
1870: Marie Lloyd, English 'music hall' artist.
1881: Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerine.

Deaths
1554: Queen Lady Jane Grey of England, executed after a nine day rule.
1586: Augustus I, Elector of Saxony and German Protestant leader.
1590: François Hotman, French scholar.
1690: Charles Le Brun, French artist.
1804: Immanuel Kant, German philosopher.
1834: Friedrich Schleiermacher, German Protestant theologist.

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