This Day In European History

24th June

Events
1340: The Battle of Sluys; a British fleet defeats their French rivals.
1497: John Cabot, an English explorer, arrives in North America.
1535: Munster, under the rule of Anabaptist preacher-king Jan Bokelson, falls to a combined army of enraged Catholic and Protestants.
1803: Abortion is criminalised in Britain.
1812: Napoleon's Grande Armée of at least 400,000 men invades Russia.
1859: The Battle of Solferino; Napoleon III's forces defeat Austria.
1948: The Berlin Blockade begins.

Births
1519: Theodore Beza, French protestant theologian.
1542: St. John of the Cross, Spanish mystic.
1850: Horatio Kitchener, British military commander and face of recruitment posters, born.
1915: Fred Hoyle, British astronomer.

Deaths
79: Roman Emperor Vespasian.
1519: Lucrezia Borgia, notorious Italian noblewomen.
1643: John Hampden, English Parliamentarian Commander.

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