This Day In European History

7th October

Events
1546: The 'Fourteen of Meaux', Calvinist Huguenots, are burnt at the stake.
1571: The Battle of Lepanto; the fleet of the Holy League defeats their Ottoman rivals.
1806: Ralph Wedgewood patents carbon paper in England.
1876: The first use of an artificial hare in greyhound racing, at Hendon, England.
1879: An alliance between Austria and Germany is signed for five years and renewed constantly until 1918.
1949: The German Democratic Republic, better known as East Germany, established.

Births
1573: Archbishop William Laud of Canterbury.
1675: Rosalba Carriera, Italian painter.
1885: Niels Bohr, Danish physicist.
1900: Heinrich Himmler, German SS leader.

Deaths
1612: Battista Guarini, Italian poet.
1660: Paul Scarron, French writer.
1796: Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher.

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