This Day In European History
29th June
Events48 BCE: The Battle of Pharsalus; Julius Caesar defeats Pompey.
1529: The Treaty of Barcelona; Pope Clement VII makes numerous concessions to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his Habsburg family in return for the Medici, the Pope's family, returning to power in Florence.
1613: London's Globe Theatre, famous for being used by Shakespeare, burns down.
1620: Growing tobacco is banned in Britain.
1801: Britain's first census; the population is officially 8,872,000.
1830: First murder of a British police officer on duty.
1885: Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper is first published, a result of the publisher's anger over the Crimean War and a desire to express it. The newspaper is still on daily sale today.
Births
1798: Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher.
1900: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French aviator.
Deaths
1022: Notker Labeo, monk and translator.
1509: Countess Margaret Beaufort of Richmond and Derby, mother of King Henry VII of England.
1607: St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow.
1861: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, dies.
1895: Thomas Huxley, English biologist.
1940: Paul Klee, Swiss artist.
