This Day In European History
8th June
Events900: King Edward the Elder of Wessex is crowned.
1867: Emperer Francis I of Austria is crowned King of Hungary following the 'Ausgleich'.
1929: Margaret Bondfield becomes Britain's first female Cabinet minister.
Births
1625: Gian Cassini, Franco-Italian astronomer.
1724: John Smeaton, English engineer.
1810: Robert Schumann, German composer.
1829: John Everett Millais, English painter.
1916: Francis Crick, British co-discoverer of DNA.
Deaths
597: St. Columbia.
632: Mohammed, the founder of Islam.
1376: Edward, The Black Prince, heir to the English throne.
1714: Sophia of the Palantinate, elector of Hanover and mother of King George I of Britain.
1768: Johann Winckelmann, German archaeologist and art historian.
1865: Joseph Paxton, English designer of the Crystal Palace.
1876: George Sand, French novelist.
c1913: Emily Davison, English Suffragette.
