This Day In European History

26th May

Events
1679: The Habeas Corpus Act is passed in England.
1805: Napoleon is crowned King of Italy...by himself.
1831: The Battle of Ostrolenke; Russian beats a Polish army.
1846: The Corn Laws are repealed in England.
1849: The 'Three Kings' League' is formed by Prussia, Saxony and Hanover to try and achieve a German unity...under Prussian leadership.
1868: The last public hanging in Britain.

Births
1650: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, British general.
1822: Edmond de Goncourt, French writer.

Deaths
604: St Augustine of Canterbury, first Archbishop of Canterbury.
946: King Edmund of Wessex, murdered in a brawl?.
1595: St. Philip Neri, Italian priest.
1648: Vincent Voiture, French poet.
1653: Robert Filmer, English writer who pioneered English ideas of absolutist monarchy.
1703: Samuel Pepys, English diarist.
1868: Michael Barret, Irish nationalist, hanged.

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