This Day In European History

7th February

Events
1301: Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) is made the first English Prince of Wales, a title traditionally given to the English royal heir.
1403: King Henry IV of England marries Joan of Navarre.
1792: Austria and Prussia ally against Revolutionary France.
1990: The Soviet Union allows an official political opposition to the Communist party.
1992: The Maastricht Treaty signed.

Births
1478 Thomas More, English statesman and humanist.
1693: Anna Ivanovna, Russian Empress.
1812: Charles Dickens, British writer.
1870: Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist.
1877: Godfrey Hardy, English mathematician.

Deaths
590: Pope Pelagius II.
1878: Pope Pius IX.
1894: Adolphe Sax, Franco-Belgian inventor of the Saxophone.

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