This Day In European History

7th March

Events
1530: Pope Clement VII refuses Henry VIII's request to divorce Catherine of Aragon.
1573: Venice cedes Cyprus to the Ottoman Empire to bring peace.
1714: The Peace of Rastatt; Charles VI of the Holy Roman Empire agrees to peace with France after The War of the Spanish Succession.
1820: The Spanish Inquisition is abolished.
1876: Scotland's Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
1934: Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss transforms himself into a dictator.

Births
1715: Ewald von Kleist, German poet.
1765: Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor.
1785: Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer.
1792: John Herschel, English astronomer.
1802: Edwin Landseer, British artist.
1850: Tomás Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia.
1872: Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter.
1875: Maurice Ravel, French composer.

Deaths
1111: Prince Bohemond I of Otranto and Antioch.
1274: Thomas Aquinas, Sicilian theologian.
1809: Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, French balloonist.
1810: Cuthbert Collingwood, English naval commander.

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