This Day In European History

31st January

Events
1504: The Treaty of Naples; King Louis XII of France cedes the kingdom of Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon.
1609: The Wisselbank of Amsterdam opens, the first public bank in the United Netherlands.
1850: Prussia receives a limited liberal constitution.
1878: The Russo-Ottoman war over the Balkans ends as the Ottoman Empire concedes defeat and agrees to an armistice.
1917: As World War One rages, Germany announces that unrestricted submarine warfare will resume the next day.

Births
1512: King and Cardinal Henry of Portugal.
1797: Franz Schubert, Austrian composer.
1893: Freya Stark, British traveller and writer.

Deaths
1580: King and Cardinal Henry of Portugal.
1606: Guy Fawkes, English Catholic extremist, executed.
1788: Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, English royal pretender.
1831: Barthold Georg Niebuhr, German historian.
1956: AA Milne, British writer and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.

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