This Day In European History
8th November
Events1519: Spanish conquistadors capture the Aztec Emperor Montezuma.
1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath: eighty Swedish bishops are murdered on the command of King Christian II of Denmark-Norway and Sweden just four days after he gave them an amnesty. Further massacres follow throughout Sweden.
1620: The Battle of the White Mountain: Protestant Czech forces are defeated by Catholic Austrian ones, ending Bohemia's independence and partly triggering the Thirty Years War.
1888: Tiddlywinks patented by Joseph Fincher.
1895: X-Rays are discovered by German Wilhelm Roentgen.
1923: The Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler's first attempt to seize power.
Births
1656: Edmond Halley, English astronomer.
1847: Bram Stoker, British author of Dracula.
1848: Gottlob Frege, German mathematician.
1866: Lord Herbert Austin, English car maker.
1883: Arnold Bax, English composer.
1884: Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist.
Deaths
397: St. Martin of Tours.
1494: Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter.
1517: Cardinal Francisco de Cisneros, regent of Spain.
1674: John Milton, English poet.
1675: Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch painter.
1865: Tom Sayers, British boxer.
1890: César Franck, Franco-Belgian composer.
