This Day In European History

14th February

Events
1130: Anacletus II is elected as antipope to Pope Innocent II.
1783: Britain formally ceases hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.

Births
1404: Leon Battista Alberti, Florentine artist and architect.
1869: Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist.

Deaths
1400: Richard II, deposed king of England, murdered.
1779: James Cook, British explorer, murdered.

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