This Day In European History

12th June

Events
1458: Magdalen College, Oxford, founded.
1667: The first successful blood transfusion: Jean-Baptiste Denys transfuses a fifteen year old boy with sheep's blood.
1673: The future King James I of England is forced to resign as Lord High Admiral because of his Catholic faith.
1747: Marcos Saenz becomes the first bullfighter to be killed in combat.

Births
1519: Cosimo I, the Great, de Medici, Duke of Florence and Grand Duke of Tuscany.
1806: John Roebling, Germano-American architect.
1819: Charles Kingsley, British writer and clergyman.
1897: Anthony Eden, British prime minister.
1929: Anne Frank, Dutch diarist.

Deaths
816: Pope Leo III.
1734: James Fitzjames, English commander.
1759: William Collins, English poet.

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