This Day In European History
27th March
Events1351: The Battle of the Thirty: two teams of thirty knights, one English, one Breton, fight to decide ownership of Brittany. The Bretons win.
1625: King Charles I of England, Ireland and Scotland ascends to the throne; he later loses the English Civil War and is executed by parliament.
1802: The Treaty of Amiens between Britain and France; Europe is briefly at peace during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
Births
1797: Alfred de Vigny, French writer.
1845: Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, German physicist.
1863: Frederick Henry Royce, British co-founder of Rolls Royce.
1871: Heinrich Mann, German writer.
Deaths
1625: King James I of England and VI of Scotland.
1968: Yury Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and first man in space.
