This Day In European History
6th July
Events1483: King Richard III of England is crowned.
1573: The Peace of Boulogne grants French Huguenots an amnesty and limits the areas where they can worship, ending the Fourth War of Religion.
1685: The Battle of Sedgemore, the last battle on English soil.
1885: The first inoculation of a human is performed by Louis Pasteur.
1892: Parsee Dadabhai Naoroji is elected Britain's first Asian MP.
Births
1886: Marc Bloch, French historian.
Deaths
1189: King Henry II of England.
1415: Jan Huss, Bohemian martyr.
1476: Regiomontanus, German astronomer.
1533: Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet.
1535: Thomas More, English Chancellor.
1553: King Edward VI of England.
1755: John Flaxman, English artist.
1854: Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist.
1890: Edwin Chadwick, English reformer.
1893: Guy de Maupassant, French author.
