This Day In European History

9th February

Events
1598: End of an English Parliament which passed a Poor Law to deal with those in financial need; its basic laws - which include workhouses and the concept of the undeserving poor - stay in effect the nineteenth century.
1674: The Treaty of Westminster ends the Third Anglo-Dutch war with only small Dutch concessions.
1788: Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1801: The Treaty of Luneville, signed after French victories over Austria, practically replaces the Holy Roman Empire with new or re-organised republics.
1849: The Papal States are declared a Roman Republic.

Births
1854: Edward Henry Carson, Irish politician.
1863: Anthony Hope, English writer; works include 'The Prisoner of Zenda'.
1885: Alban Berg, Austrian composer.
1898: Steen Rasmussen, Danish architect.

Deaths
1555: John Hooper, English Protestant bishop, burnt at stake.
1567: Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered.
1588: Alvaro de Bazan, Spanish planner of the Great Armada.
1811: Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer.
1874: Jules Michelet, French historian.
1881: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author.
1977: Sergei Ilyushin, Soviet aircraft designer.

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