This Day In European History

3rd June

Events
1162: Thomas Becket is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
1665: The Battle of Lowestoft; an English fleet defeats the Dutch.
1899: A retrial is ordered in the case of Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer convicted despite his innocence.
1937 The former King Edward VIII of Britain marries Wallis Simpson.

Births
1726: James Hutton, Scottish geologist.
1804: Richard Cobden, English economist and reformer.
1818: Louis Faidherbe, French colonialist.
1853: William Flinders Petrie, British archaeologist.
1865: King George V of Britain.

Deaths
618: St. Kevin, Irish abbot and hermit.
1657: William Harvey, English doctor.
1875: Georges Bizet, French composer.
1899: Johann Strauss, the Younger, Austrian composer.
1924: Franz Kafka, Czech writer.

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