This Day In European History

23rd March

Events
752: Stephen II is elected Pope, but he dies within forty-eight hours.
1743: Handel's Messiah is first performed, in London.
1792: The Girondist party forms a government in Revolutionary France.
1966: Pope Paul VI meets Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, the first meeting between the two posts for centuries.

Births
1749: Pierre-Simon de Laplace, French scientist.
1769: William Smith, English pioneer of stratigraphy.
1854: Alfred Milner, British Colonial Minister who helped cause the Boer War.
1929: Roger Bannister, British athlete, first sub four-minute mile runner.

Deaths
1819: August von Kotzebue, German writer.
1842: Stendhal, French writer.

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