This Day In European History

8th September

Events
1888: The first English football league matches.
1944: The first of Germany's V2 weapons strike London.

Births
1157: King Richard I, the Lionheart, of England.
1500: Peter Martyr Vermigli, Italian reformer.
1621: Louis II de Bourbon, French rebel and general.
1767: August Schlegel, German scholar.
1830: Frédéric Mistral, French poet.
1841: Antonin Dvorák, Bohemian composer.
1925: Peter Sellers, British actor.

Deaths
701: Pope Sergius I.
1100: Anti-Pope Clement III.
1544: Clément Marot, French poet.
1560: Amy Robsart, wife of Queen Elizabeth I of England's favourite Robert Dudley; both have to deny involvement in her death.
1656: Joseph Hall, English writer.
1784: Ann Lee, English Shaker.
1811: Peter Pallas, German geologist.
1894: Hermann Helmholtz, German philosopher.

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