This Day In European History
2nd July
Events1500: The Diet of Augsburg creates the 'Reichregiment', a council ruling the Holy Roman Empire.
1644: Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists during the English Civil War.
1900: The first 'Zeppelin' is flown.
Births
1489: Thomas Cranmer, English Archbishop of Canterbury.
1566: Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer.
1714: Christoph von Gluck, German composer.
1724: Fredrich Klopstock, German poet.
1862: William Bragg, English physicist.
1877: Hermann Hesse, German author.
Deaths
862: St. Swithun.
936: Henry I, the Fowler, King of the Germans.
1035: Duke Robert I of Normandy.
1091: William of Hirsau.
1743: Spencer Compton, British prime minister.
1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher.
1843: Samuel Hahnemann, German physician.
1850: Robert Peel, British prime minister.
