This Day In European History

10th June

Events
1829: The first Oxford versus Cambridge University boat race; it is still held annually.
1943: Laszlo Biro patents his balllpoint pen.

Births
1688: James Edward Stuart, British royal pretender.
1819: Gustave Courbet, French painter.
1832: Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer.
1921: Prince Philip of Greece, husband of British Queen Elizabeth II.

Deaths
138: Roman Emperor Hadrian.
1190: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, Barbarossa.
1560: Mary of Guise, mother of Mary Queen of Scots.
1580: Luis Vaz de Camões, Portuguese poet.
1605: Tsar Fyodor II of Russia, killed by a mob.
1654: Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor.
1836: André-Marie Ampère, French physicist.
1858: Robert Brown, Scottish botanist.

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