This Day In European History
30th May
Events1536: King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, his third wife.
1588: The Spanish Armada sets sail to attack England.
1635: The Peace of Prague is signed between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and the Elector of Saxony, allowing Saxony to keep Lusatia, and the heirs to Saxony to keep Magdeburg.
1814: The First Treaty of Paris is signed. Post-Napoleonic France agrees to return to its borders of 1792 and recognise Italian, German, and other states as independent. Belgium and the Netherlands are formed into an independent state under William I.
Births
1744: Alexander Pope, British writer.
1757: Henry Addington, British Prime Minister.
1770: Francois Boucher, French artist.
1814: Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, Russian revolutionary.
Deaths
1431: Joan of Arc, burnt at the stake.
1574: King Charles IX of France.
1593: Christopher Marlowe, English writer and spy, murdered.
1640: André Duchesne, French historian.
1640: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter.
1744: Alexander Pope, English poet.
1778: Voltaire, French author.
