This Day In European History
25th June
Events1178: Monks from Canterbury, England, report seeing an explosion on the moon.
1243: Pope Innocent IV is elected.
1501: The Treaty of Granada - which partitions Naples between France and Spain.
1530: Philip Melanchthon manages to annoy his own side at the Diet of Ausburg by presenting a discussion on Protestantism, the Confession of Augsburg, which Luther and other Protestants find too conservative.
1797: Battle of Santa Cruz; Admiral Nelson loses his right arm.
1903: Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium.
Births
1736: John Tooke, English reformer.
1796: Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
1852: Antoni Gaudi, Spanish architect.
1864: Walther Nernst, German scientist.
1900: Louis, Earl of Mountbatten, British commander.
Deaths
1634: John Marston, English playwright.
1767: Georg Telemann, German composer.
1822: E. T. A. Hoffmann, German author and painter.
