This Day In European History

18th March

Events
1554: The future Queen Elizabeth I of England is put into the Tower of London by her sister, Queen Mary.
1584: Tsar Fyodor I succeeds in Russia but, because of his illness, a regency council under the control of Boris Godunov takes power.
1834: The Tolpuddle Martyrs, six English farm workers, are sentenced to transportation for forming a trade union.
1965: Russian Cosmonaut Leonev makes the first spacewalk.

Births
1733: Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German Enlightenment leader.
1842: Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet.
1844: Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer.
1858: Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel engine.
1869: Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister of 'peace in our time' infamy.
1882: Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer.
1893: Wilfred Owen, British poet.

Deaths
978: King Edward, the Martyr, assassinated.
1584: Tsar Ivan IV, the Terrible, of Russia.
1754: Germain Boffrand, French architect.
1768: Laurence Sterne, Irish writer.
1781: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French economist.
1812: John Tooke, English political activist.

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