This Day In European History

19th March

Events
1563: Concessions by Prince Louis I of Conde end the First War of Religion in France.
1834: The Tolpuddle Martyrs are found guilty and sentenced to deportation.

Births
1657: Jean Leclerc, Swiss scholar.
1813 David Livingstone, Scottish explorer.
1849: Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral.
1900: Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist.

Deaths
1314: Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, burnt at stake.
1330: Edmund Plantagenet, English Earl of Kent, executed.
1711: Thomas Ken, English bishop.

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