This Day In European History

5th March

Events
1616: The Vatican bans Copernicus's De Revolutionibus.
1796: The Royalist uprisings in the Vendee region of France are fully put down by Revolutionary forces.
1946 Churchill makes his 'iron curtain' speech.

Births
1133: King Henry II of England.
1326: Louis 'the Great' of Hungary.
1512 Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartography pioneer.
1574: William Oughtred, English inventor of the slide rule.

Deaths
1534: Correggio, Italian painter.
1588: Henri I de Bourbon, French Huguenot leader.
1605: Pope Clement VIII.
1815: Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician and hypnotist.
1827: Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery.
1827: Pierre-Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer.
1892: Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine, French historian.
1953: Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator.
1953: Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer.

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