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This Day In European History

14th July

Events
1077: The Bayeux Tapestry is first displayed, at Bayeaux Cathedral.
1789: The Storming of the Bastille in France.
1862: A party lead by Britain's Edward Whymper becomes the first to climb the Matterhorn; four of the seven die on the way down.
1867: Alfred Nobel reveals a new invention: dynamite.
1933: All but one political party is banned in Germany: the Nazi party.

Births
1454: Poliziano, Florentine poet.
1602: Jules Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman.
1634: Pasquier Quesnel, French theologian.
1801: Johannes Peter Müller, German philosopher.
1816: Joseph-Arthur Gobineau, French ethnologist.
1858: Emmeline Pankhurst, British Suffragette.
1862: Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter.
1868: Gertrude Bell, English writer.

Deaths
1270: Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury.
1704: Sofia Alexeyelna, Russian regent.
1742: Richard Bentley, English scholar.
1790: Ernst Laudon, Austrian field marshal.
1817: Madame de Staël, French writer.
1887: Alfred Krupp, German industrialist.
1907: William Perkin, British chemist.

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