This Day In European History

21st January

Events
1217: Matthew Paris, English monk and chronicler, joins St. Alban's monastery.
1525: The Swiss Brethren, a foundation of Anabaptists, formed.
1732: The Treaty of Riascha signed by Russia and Persia; Russia gives up claims on Persian lands.
1799: The smallpox vaccine is first used publically.
1976: Concorde, the Anglo-French supersonic airliner, enters service.

Births
1338: King Charles V of France.
1885: Duncan Grant, Scottish painter.

Deaths
1609: Joseph Justus Scaliger, Dutch chronologist.
1626: John Dowland, English composer.
1793: King Louis XVI of France, executed by Guillotine.
1870: Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Russian political activist who believed there would be a socialist peasant's revolt.
1872: Franz Grillparzer, Austrian dramatist.
1924: Vladimir Lenin, Russian Revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet Union.
1950: George Orwell, British writer.

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