This Day In European History

28th July

Events
1540: King Henry VIII is married for the fifth time – to Catherine Howard – while the man who arranged his fourth marriage – Thomas Cromwell – is executed.
1586: The Potato is introduced into Britain from America.
1588: The Spanish Armadais is scattered.
1814: A seventeen year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin – author of Frankenstein – elopes to Switzerland with her married partner.
1914: Austria declares war on Serbia: World War One begins.
1914: Henriette Caillaux is acquitted of murder.

Births
1804: Ludwig Feuerbach, german philosopher.
1866: Beatrix Potter, British author.
1887: Marcel Duchamp, French artist.

Deaths
450: Roman Emperor Theodosius II.
1540: Thomas Cromwell, English Chief Minister.
1655: Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, French writer.
1696: Charles Colbert, French statesman.
1718: Étienne Baluze, French historian.
1741: Antonio Vivaldi, Venetian Composer.
1750: Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer.
1794: Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary, executed.
1794: Antoine St Just, French Revolutionary, executed.
1818: Gaspard Monge, French mathematician.

Yesterday

Index

Tomorrow