This Day In European History
28th June
Events1493: Pope Alexander VI uses a bull called 'Inter Cetera' to revise his earlier decision on who 'owns' the 'New World': Spain is granted all land found west of a line 100 leagues west from the Azores.
1519: King Charles I of Spain is elected as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. While Charles belongs to the Habsburg bloodline which has dominated the Imperial throne his election is secured by large bribes and an army.
1532: Ottoman forces under Sulieman I the Magnificent again invades Hungary and are again slowed in their advance.
1682: Dom Pierre Perignon invents his eponymous champagne.
1838: Britain's Queen Victoria is crowned.
1859: The first dog show, supposedly in the world, is held in Newcastle, England.
1914: Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo, the final trigger for the First World War.
1919: The Treaty of Versailles is signed by Germany, officially ending WW1.
Births
1491: King Henry VIII of England.
1577: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter.
1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher.
1719: Duc Étienne-François de Choiseul, French foreign minister.
1867: Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright.
1883: Pierre Laval, French politician.
Deaths
548: Byzantine Empress Theodora.
767: Pope Paul I.
1541: Leonard Grey, Lord Deputy of Ireland, executed.
1810: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French balloon pioneer.
1813: Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian military reformer.
1855: Lord Raglan, British commander.
