This Day In European History

26th September

Events
672: The Synod of Hertford; the See of Canterbury is given authority over the whole Anglican church.
1508: Sir Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of Earth aboard the Golden Hind.
1527: Archduke Ferdinand I of Austria (also King of Bohemia) is elected King of Hungary, but violent opposition continues from the other elected king Janos Zapolya.
1679: The Treaty of Lund concludes war between Sweden and Denmark.
1687: The Parthenon, still standing after over a millennium, is damaged during a clash of Venetian and Ottoman forces.

Births
1729: Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher.
1791: Théodore Géricault, French painter.
1849: Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist.
1887: Barnes Wallis, British bomb innovator.
1888: T. S. Eliot, British poet.
1889: Martin Heidegger, German philosopher.
1897: Pope Paul VI.

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