This Day In European History
21st November
Events1806: The Continental System is introduced by Napoleon, closing ports to British trade in an attempt to damage his island enemy. It probably does him more harm than good.
1918: Britain allows women to become MPs.
1920: The IRA murder fourteen British investigators and British soldiers murder thirteen members of a football crowd.
1953: Piltdown Man is discovered to be a hoax.
Births
1694: Voltaire, French writer.
1768: Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian.
1840: Princess Victoria of Britain, mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
1854: Pope Benedict XV.
1863: Arthur Quiller-Couch, English poetry anthologist.
Deaths
1624: Jakob Böhme, German philosopher.
1695: Henry Purcell, English composer.
