This Day In European History

5th January

Events
1463: François Villon, French poet, is banished from Paris.
1477: Battle of Nancy; Charles the Bold of Burgundy defeated and killed by the Duke of Lorraine.
1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a French military officer, is found guilty in the Dreyfuss Affair.
1919: The German Workers' party is founded in Munich by locksmith Anton Drexler; it later becomes the Nazi party.
1921 D'Annunzio leaves Fiume, the city he captured and turned into a mini-state in 1919.
1968: The 'Prague Spring', a period of liberal reform, begins in Czechoslovakia.

Births
1876: Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor who rebuilt the nation after World War 2.
1938: King Juan Carlos I of Spain, first monarch after the Franco dictatorship.

Deaths
1066: Edward the Confessor, King of England.
1477: Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
1517: Francesco Francia, Italian artist.
1589: Queen Catherine de Medici of France.

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