This Day In European History

10th May

Events
946: Pope Agapetus elected.
1307: The Battle of Loudoun Hill: Robert the Bruce is victorious over English forces.
1774: King Louis XVI succeeds to the French throne.
1796: The Battle of Lodi; Napoleon's French defeat the Austrians in Italy.
1871: The Peace of Frankfurt ends the Franco-Prussian war; France loses Alsace-Lorraine and 5 million francs.
1940: Winston Churchill is asked to form a wartime government in Britain.
1941 Rudolf Hess, Nazi Germany's deputy leader, lands in England; no one has ever found out why.

Births
1727: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French finance chief.
1746: Gaspard Monge, French mathematician.
1760: Claude Rouget de Lisle, composer of the French national anthem.
1795: Augustin Thierry, French historian.
1843: Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer.
1872: Marcel Mauss, French anthropologist.
1878: Gustav Stresemann, German Chancellor.
1886: Karl Barth, Swiss theologian.
1890: Alfred Jodl, German general.

Deaths
1521: Sebastian Brant, German poet.
1566: Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist.
1696: Jean de La Bruyère, French writer.
1739: Cosmas Damian Asam, German designer.
1774: King Louis XV of France.
1794: Elisabeth of France, sister of King Louis XVI.

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