This Day In European History
3rd May
Events495: Pope Gelasius I rules that his authority is stronger than the Byzantine emperors.
996: Pope Gregory V is elected.
1493: The Spanish Pope grants all lands found by Christopher Columbus (whether already or in the future) to...Spain.
1512: The Fifth Lateran Council opens in Rome.
1660: The Peace of Oliwa is signed, ending war between Sweden on one side and Brandenburg, Poland and Denmark on the other,
1791: Poland changes its constitution from an electoral monarchy to a hereditary monachy; Russsia responds by agitating support for the old system and invading the following year.
1808: A duel is fought above Paris from two hot air balloons...
1814: King Louis XVIII of France enters Paris, having resumed control of the country following Napoleon's abdication.
1926: The General Strike starts in Britain; it lasts nine days and causes three million people to stop working.
Births
1469: Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer.
1748: Emmanuel Sieyès, French clergyman.
1761: August von Kotzebue, German writer.
1874: Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer.
1892: George Thomson, English physicist.
Deaths
1513: Edmund de la Pole, English royal claimant, executed.
1606: Henry Garnett, English Jesuit.
