This Day In European History

6th January

Events
871: The Battle of Ashdown; King Alfred the Great of Wessex defeats a Danish force.
1017: King Canute I of England crowned; he was also Canute I of Norway and Canute II of Denmark.
1066: King Edward the Confessor of England buried in Westminster Abbey.
1066: Harold Godwinson crowned King Harold II of England.
1286: King Philip IV of France crowned.
1540: King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves, wife number four.
1681: The first recorded modern boxing match, between the Duke of Albemarle's butler and butcher.

Births
1367: King Richard II of England.
1412: Joan of Arc, French heroine and military figurehead.
1655: Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician.
1707: Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne.
1822: Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist whose excavations included Troy.
1872: Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer.

Deaths
1829: Josef Dobrovsky, Czech linguist.
1852: Louis Braille, French inventor of Braille
1884: Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and genetics pioneer.

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