This Day In European History

4th May

Events
1471: The Battle of Tewkesbury during England's Wars of the Roses.
1747: William IV of Orange Nassau is elected as hereditary stadholder of the United Netherlands.
1814: Napoleon begins his exile on Elba; Spain, free of Napoleonic control, scraps his liberal constitution.
1979: Britain receives its first female Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher.

Births
1655: Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian inventor of the piano.
1749: Charlotte Smith, English novelist.
1852: Alice Liddell, muse of Lewis Carroll.
1881: Alexander Kerensky, Russian revolutionary and politician.
1899: Fritz von Opel, German car maker.

Deaths
1605: Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian scientist.
1677: Isaac Barrow, English scholar.
1900: Augustus Pitt-Rivers, English archaeologist.
1938: Carl von Ossietzky, German Nobel Peace winner.

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