This Day In European History

21st October

Events
1496: Duke Philip of Burgundy, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, marries Joanna the Mad, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Aragon and Castile. This union eventually leads to the union of their parents' land.
1805: The Battle of Trafalgar; the British navy defeats a combined Franco-Spanish fleet.
1966: The Aberfan disaster in Wales; 116 children and 28 adults die as a school is swamped by a collapsing mountain of coal waste.

Births
1581: Domenichino, Italian painter.
1660: Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist.
1672: Ludovico Muratori, Italian historiographer.
1772: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet.
1790: Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet.
1833: Alfred Nobel, Swedish scientist.
1868: Ernest Dunlop Swinton, British tank pioneer.

Deaths
1556: Pietro Aretino, Italian poet.
1558: Julius Caesar Scaliger, French physician.
1687: Edmund Waller, English poet.
1805: British Admiral Horatio Nelson, killed in battle.

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