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This Day In European History 26th January Events 1531: The Lisbon earthquake; 30,000 people die from quake, flood and ensuing fire. 1693: An English government Act regarding a loan to their King begins the creation of the British National Debt. 1699: The Peace of Carlowitz agreed between, on one side, Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice, and on the other, the Ottoman Empire. 1736: King Stanislaw I of Poland abdicates. 1795: Russia, Prussia and Austria agree the Third Partition of Poland, which ceases to exist. 1924: St. Petersburg, already renamed Petrograd, is renamed again to Leningrad. 1939: Barcelona captured by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. 1994: Romania joins NATO, the first former Warsaw Pact nation to do so. Births 1715: Claude-Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher. Deaths 1630: Henry Briggs, English mathematician. 1824: Theodore Gericault, French painter. 1882: Leon Gambetta, French politician. 1885: General Gordon, British soldier. 1891: Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer. 1895: Arthur Cayley, English mathematician.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:03:26 +0000

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