This Day In European History

23rd June

Events
79: Titus becomes Roman Emperor.
1314: The Battle of Bannockburn; Robert the Bruce's Scots defeat England.
1757: British forces defeat the Nawab of Bengal, a key stage in the creation of their Indian empire.
1828: Dom Miguel becomes King of Portugal after a coup.
1845: Adolphe Sax patents the 'Saxophone'.
1848: The revolutionary June Days begin in Paris as barricades are erected and rioters are shot.
1886: The Bonaparte family (Imperial claimants) and the Orleans family (royal claimants) are banished from France; this is the second time for the Bonapartes.

Births
1668: Giambattista Vico, Italian anthropologist.
1763: Joséphine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1860: Baldwin Spencer, English anthropologist.
1889: Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet.
1894: King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Ireland.
1912: Alan Turing, British mathematician and code-breaker.

Deaths
286: St. Alban, executed at Verulanium.
1836: James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian.
1881: Matthias Schleiden, German botanist.

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