This Day In European History

1st July

Events
1097: The Battle of Dorylaeum, the first battle of the First Crusade.
1659: The Union of Lublin; Poland and Lithuania unite.
1690: Battle of the Boyne; King William III of England defeats James II's Jacobite army.
1842: Child chimney sweeps are banned in Britain.
1916: The first day of the Battle of the Somme; 20,000 British troops die, most in the first hour.
1937: Britain's 999 emergency telephone number goes live.

Births
1646: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher.
1654: Louis Joseph, French general.
1742: Georg Lichtenberg, German physicist.
1804: George Sand, French author.
1818: Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physicist.
1872: Louis Blériot, French aviator.
1961: Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales.

Deaths
1614: Isaac Casaubon, French scholar.
1782: Charles Watson-Wentworth, British Prime Minister.
1876: Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary.

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