This Day In European History
9th September
Events55 BCE: Julius Caesar sails for Britain with two legions.
1513: The Battle of Flodden; English forces defeat King James IV of Scotland.
1556: Pope Paul IV invokes the papal veto over the election of the Holy Roman Emperor and refuses to acknowledge Ferdinand I's accession two days earlier.
1745: Madame de Pompadour takes up residence at Versailles as King Louis XV of France's mistress.
1845: Potato blight is first discovered in Ireland.
1945: The world's first recorded computer bug...is literally a moth caught in a relay.
1950: The end of soap rationing in Britain, instituted because of WW2.
Births
384: Roman Emperor Honorius.
1585: Cardinal de Richelieu, French statesmen and literary villain.
1629: Cornelis Tromp, Dutch Admiral.
1649: Louise de Keroualle, French mistress.
1729: Louis, Dauphin of France.
1737: Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist.
1754: William Bligh, later Captain of the Bounty.
1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian author.
Deaths
1087: William the Conqueror, King of England and Duke of Normandy.
1513: King James IV of Scotland (at Battle of Flodden).
1898: Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet.
1901: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter.
