This Day In European History
26th January
Events1531: The Lisbon earthquake; 30,000 people die from quake, flood and ensuing fire.
1693: An English government Act regarding a loan to their King begins the creation of the British National Debt.
1699: The Peace of Carlowitz agreed between, on one side, Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice, and on the other, the Ottoman Empire.
1736: King Stanislaw I of Poland abdicates.
1795: Russia, Prussia and Austria agree the Third Partition of Poland, which ceases to exist.
1924: St. Petersburg, already renamed Petrograd, is renamed again to Leningrad.
1939: Barcelona captured by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.
1994: Romania joins NATO, the first former Warsaw Pact nation to do so.
Births
1715: Claude-Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher.
Deaths
1630: Henry Briggs, English mathematician.
1824: Theodore Gericault, French painter.
1882: Leon Gambetta, French politician.
1885: General Gordon, British soldier.
1891: Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer.
1895: Arthur Cayley, English mathematician.
