This Day In European History

25th October

Events
1415: The Battle of Agincourt; King Henry V of England defeats the French with more than a little help from mud and social convention.
1595: Start of the Battle of Giurgiu, where two Princes of Transylvania - Sigismund Bathory and Michael the Brave – destroy Ottoman forces occupying Wallachia.
1854: The Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade; an Anglo-French force defeats Russia.
1840 The first railway timetable, Bradshaw's Railway Companion, is published in Britain.

Births
1692: Isabella Farnese, Queen consort of King Philip V of Spain.
1759: William Grenville, English politician.
1767: Benjamin Constant, Franco-Swiss writer.
1800: Thomas Babington Macaulay, British writer and historian.
1811: Evariste Galois, French mathematician.
1825: Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer.
1838: Georges Bizet, French composer.
1881: Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist.
1889: Abel Gance, French director.

Deaths
1047: King Magnus the Good of Denmark and Norway.
1154: King Stephen of England.
1400: Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet and administrator.
1510: Giorgione, Italian painter.
1647: Evangelista Torricelli, Italian scientist.
1653: Théophraste Renaudot, French administer.
1760: King George II of England.
1861: Friedrich Karl von Savigny, German jurist.

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