This Day In European History
30th January
Events1648: The Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War.
1667: The Treaty of Andrussovo ends the Thirteen Year War between Poland and Russia, instead uniting them against the Ottoman Empire.
1875: France passes a Republican constitution by one vote.
1933: Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor.
1969: The Beatles make their last public appearance as a group.
1972: Bloody Sunday, when British troops kill thirteen in Northern Ireland.
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Deaths
1606: Digby, Winter, Grant, and Bates, English Gunpowder Plotters, executed.
1649: King Charles I of England, executed.
1889: Archduke Rudolf, heir to Austrian Empire, assassinated.
