This Day In European History

8th October

Events
1085: St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice consecrated.
1813: British forces cross from Spain into Napoleonic France.
1958: The first internal pacemaker is added to a person in Stockholm.

Births
1553: Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historiographer.
1878: Alfred James Munnings, English painter.
1900: Geoffrey Jellico, English architect.
1900: Serge Chermayeff, Anglo-Russian architect.

Deaths
1754: Henry Fielding, British author of Tom Jones.
1803: Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet.
1967: Clement Attlee, British prime minister.

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