This Day In European History

14th May

Events
1264: The Battle of Lewes ends; King Henry III of England captured.
1572: Pope Gregory XIII is elected.
1639: The Trot of Turriff in Scotland, a small battle which begins the First Bishops' War.
1643: King Louis XIV succeeds to the French throne at the age of four; he rules for the next 72 years, the longest by any European monarch.
1702: Warsaw is captured by King Charles XII of Sweden.
1796 The smallpox vaccine is discovered by England's Edward Jenner.
1955: The Warsaw Pact forms.

Births
1553: Queen Marguerite de Valois of Navarre.
1686: Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist.
1867: Kurt Eisner, German socialist.
1885: Otto Klemperer, German conductor.

Deaths
964: Pope John XII.
1565: Nikolaus von Amsdorf, Protestant reformer.
1610: King Henry IV of France, assassinated.
1643: King Louis XIII the Just of France.

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