This Day In European History

25th November

Events
1120: The 'White Ship' sinks outside Barfleur drowning William the Aetheling, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England; a civil war over the succession followed Henry's death.
1783 British withdraws its last troops from the US.
1795: King Stanislas II Poniatowski of Poland abdicates.
1867: Dynamite is patented by Sweden's Alfred Nobel.
1952: The Mousetrap, a play based on an Agatha Christie novel, opens in London; it is now the world's longest running play.
1995: Ireland legalises divorce.

Births
1562: Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright.
1609: Henrietta Maria, Queen consort of King Charles I of England.
1638: Catherine of Braganza, Portuguese queen consort of King Charles II of Britain.
1844: Carl Benz, German engineer.

Deaths
1034: King Malcolm II of Scotland.
1560: Andrea Doria, Genoese commander and statesman.
1748: Isaac Watts, English minister.

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