This Day In European History

15th July

Events
971: According to the legend of St. Swithin, the start of forty days of rain.
1099: Crusading Europeans seize Jerusalem.
1240: The Battle of Neva; Alexander 'Nevsky' (an epithet he gained because of the battle) defeats Sweden.
1410: The Battle of Tannenberg; the Knights of the Teutonic Order are defeated by an alliance between the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and others.
1789: The Commune de Paris is formed, a stage in the French Revolution.
1869: Margarine is patented in France.

Births
1573: Inigo Jones, English architect.
1606: Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Painter.
1704: August Spangenberg, German theologian.
1809: Friedrich Henle, German pathologist.

Deaths
1015: Grand Prince Vladimir I of Kiev.
1274: Saint Bonaventure.
1291: King Rudolf I of the Holy Roman Empire.
1609: Annibale Carracci, Italian painter.
1685: Duke James Scott of Monmouth, English pretender, executed.
1828: Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor.
1904: Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright.

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