This Day In European History

10th September

Events
1515: Britain's Thomas Wolsey is made a Cardinal.
1538: The League of Nuremburg is formed by German Catholic Princes to counter the Protestant Schmalkaldic League.
1547: The Battle of Pinkie; England beats Scotland.
1697: The Nine Years' War ends as the Treaty of Ryswick is signed.
1721: The Treaty of Rystad between Russia and Sweden gives Russia most of the latter's Baltic territory.
1894: Britain issues its first fine for drunken driving, to George Smith.
1989: Hungary reopens its western border after years of Cold War.

Births
1624: Thomas Sydenham, English physician.
1753: John Soane, English architect.
1771: Mungo Park, British explorer.
1855: Robert Koldewey, German architect.
1890: Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist.
1896: Elsa Schiaparelli, Franco-Italian designer.

Deaths
1167: Empress Matilda, Queen of England.
1602: Hugh Roe, Irish king.
1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, stabbed by an anarchist.

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