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794 – While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls, Briton, with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and beheaded. 1449 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal. 802 – Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates…
German organic chemist. He did pioneering work on plant pigments, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1915, as well as on medicinal chemicals, developing gas masks in the First World War. Being Jewish, growing anti-Semitism led to his position becoming untenable, and he fled Germany in 1939. More at: History
