This Day In European History

17th February

Events
1461: The Second Battle of St. Albans; Lancastrians defeat Yorkists in England's War of the Roses.
1597: Boris Godunov is elected Tsar of Russia.
1866: Britain suspends Habeas Corpus in Ireland, allowing imprisonment without trial.
1867: Government by Ausgleich (compromise) begins in the former Austrian empire as the Dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy begins.

Births
1653: Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer.
1740: Horace Benedict de Saussure, Swiss physicist.
1766: Thomas Malthus, English economist and demographer.
1865: Ernst Troeltsch, German theologian.
1877: Andre Maginot, French politician and organiser of the Maginot Line.

Deaths
1600: Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, burnt at stake.
1673: Moliere, French playwright.
1680: Denzil Holles, English Presbyterian.
1796: James Macpherson, Scottish poet.
1827: Joseph Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss education advocate.
1857: Heinrich Heine, German poet.
1874: Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician.

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