This Day In European History
20th September
Events451: Atilla the Hun is defeated at Chalons-sur-Marne in France.
1519: Magellan leaves Seville on his global circumnavigation.
1643: The First Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War; King Charles I is defeated by a Parliamentary army.
1854: Battle of Alma; combined British and French forces defeats Russia.
1931: Britain abandons the gold standard.
Births
365 BCE: Alexander the Great.
1842: James Dewar, British inventor of the vacuum flask.
1900: Willem Hooft, Dutch theologian.
Deaths
1863: Jacob Grimm, German scholar.
