This Day In European History

23rd February

Events
1574: The fifth holy war against Huguenots begins in France.
1642: England's Queen Henrietta Maria travels to the United Netherlands in order to raise troops to support her husband, King Charles I; she takes the crown jewels as collateral.
1766: The Duchy of Lorraine becomes part of France following the death of former ruler Stanislas Leszcynski.
1820: The Cato Street Conspiracy fails.
1898: Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse!" article in support of Alfred Dreyfuss.
1919: The Italian Fascist Party is founded by Mussolini.

Births
1633: Samuel Pepys, English diarist.
1685: George Frideric Handel, German composer.
1714: Louis Feudrix de Brequigny, French historian.
1744: Amschel Rothschild, German banker.
1883: Karl Jaspers, German philosopher.
1899: Erich Kästner, German writer.

Deaths
1507: Gentile Bellini, Venetian painter.
1554: Henry Grey, father of Lady Jane Grey, executed.
1792: Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
1821: John Keats, British poet.
1855: Karl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician.

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