This Day In European History
13th February
Events1574: King Henry III of France is crowned.
1663: Galileo arrives in Rome, having been summoned by the Inquisition.
1668: The Treaty of Lisbon; Spain accepts Portuguese independence.
1689: William of Orange and his wife Mary, daughter of the former King James II of England, are offered the English crown by Parliament.
1692: The Glencoe Massacre; English troops kill thirty Macdonald clan members.
1706: Battle of Fraustadt; Sweden defeats Russia.
1793: The First Coalition against France is formed by Austria, Britain, Prussia, Spain, Sardinia and the Dutch Republic as part of the 'French Revolutionary Wars'. The Holy Roman Empire declares war on France a little over a month later.
1898: Henry Lindfield of Brighton, England becomes the first driver to die in a car accident.
1929: Alexander Fleming unveils penicillin.
Births
1547: Aldus Manutius the Younger, Italian publisher.
1599: Pope Alexander VII.
1610: Jean de Labadie, French theologian.
1728: John Hunter, English founder of modern anatomy.
1743: Joseph Banks, British explorer.
Deaths
1542: Catherine Howard, Henry VIII of England's fifth wife, executed.
1571: Benvenuto Cellini, FLorentine artist.
1602: Alexander Nowell, Anglican priest.
1741: Johann Fux, Austrian composer.
1787: Charles Gravier, the French foreign minister who allied his nation with the American revolutionary colonies.
