This Day In European History

26th July

Events
811: The Battle of Pliska; Kahm Krum of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine forces.
1524: The twelve year old James V is made king of Scotland by his mother and her 'English' faction.
1887: Esperanto is published.
1895: Pierre and Marie Curie marry.

Births
1856: George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer.
1875: Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist.
1893: George Grosz, German artist.
1894: Aldous Huxley, British author.

Deaths
796: King Offa of Mercia.
811: Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus I.
1592: Armand de Gontaut, French marshal.
1680: John Wilmot, English poet.

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