The Grand Council of Nimes meets under Pope Urban II |
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1095 |
Henry II dies at the castle of Chinon, near Tours, France |
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1189 |
Czech theologian Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake |
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1415 |
Richard III is crowned |
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1483 |
Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão discovers the mouth of the Congo River |
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1484 |
Sir Thomas More is executed for treason |
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1535 |
Edward VI dies |
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1553 |
King Philip II of Spain, consort of Mary I, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the
loss of Calais, the last English possession on the continent; Mary would never see him again |
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1557 |
England and France, with the assent of the Scottish Lords of the Congregation, sign the Treaty of Edinburgh –
replacing Scotland's 'Auld Alliance' with France with a new Anglo–Scottish accord, while maintaining the peace between
England and France agreed by the Treaty of Cateau–Cambresis |
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1560 |
Sweden's decisive intervention in the Thirty Years' War (now in its twelfth year) begins, as Gustavus Adolphus
lands in the Duchy of Pomerania with 4,000 troops |
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1630 |
Battle of Sedgemoor: the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion is defeated, as his troops are routed by those of James II |
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1685 |
Captain William Kidd, pirate, is captured in America and deported to England |
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1699 |
American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York, after a bombardment by British artillery under General John
Burgoyne |
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1777 |
British naval forces under Admiral John Byron (grandfather of the poet Lord Byron) are defeated by the French off Grenada |
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1779 |
The French Navy, although outnumbered, defeats the British in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras |
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1801 |
Pope Pius VII is taken prisoner by the French after he excommunicated Napoleon |
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1809 |
The Republican Party holds its first official convention, in Jackson, Michigan |
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1854 |
Queensland becomes a colony (separated from New South Wales) |
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1859 |
Louis Pasteur successfully treats nine–year–old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by a rabid dog, with
his vaccine |
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1885 |
Steel workers killed in a clash with Pinkerton agents during a strike at the Carnegie plant at Homestead, USA |
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1892 |
The Duke of York (later George V) marries Princess Victoria Mary of Teck |
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1893 |
Brooklands – the world's first purpose–built motor racing circuit – opens |
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1907 |
The UK, US, Canada and Holland cease by Papal decree to be missionary lands |
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1908 |
Arabian troops led by Colonel T. E. Lawrence and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire |
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1917 |
Britain's R34 lands in New York, to become the first airship to cross the Atlantic (taking 4 days, 12 hours and 12
minutes); the first stowaway is found on board |
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1919 |
The Soviet Union is formally constituted |
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1923 |
The first all–talking feature film – The Lights of New York – is shown in New York |
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1928 |
A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into
the River Irwell at Little Lever, near Bolton. The breach would never be repaired; that stretch of the canal would never be used again, and
the canal would eventually close in 1961 |
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1936 |
President Roosevelt defines the Four Freedoms in a speech |
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1940 |
Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane and Australia's longest cantilever bridge, is formally opened |
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1940 |
Otto Frank and his family go into hiding in the 'Secret Annexe' above his office in an Amsterdam warehouse |
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1942 |
Around 168 lives are lost, and over 700 people are injured, when Barnum & Ringling's Big Top catches fire at
Hartford, Connecticut – one of the USA's worst ever fire disasters |
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1944 |
During his military service, future baseball star Jackie Robinson refuses to sit in the back of an army bus; he would
be court–martialled for insubordination, and even though acquitted, this would prevent him from being deployed overseas – and
seeing combat action |
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1944 |
The Kalashnikov AK–47 goes into production in the Soviet Union |
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1947 |
The Oder–Neisse line is established as the border between Poland and East Germany |
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1950 |
London's last tram runs |
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1952 |
John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, at Woolton Parish Church fete |
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1957 |
Althea Gibson, 30, becomes the first black Wimbledon singles champion |
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1957 |
The Saar becomes part of Germany |
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1959 |
The Late Late Show airs on RTÉ One for the first time; it would go on to become the world's
longest–running chat show by the same broadcaster |
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1962 |
Nyasaland becomes independent as Malawi |
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1964 |
A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles' first film, gets a Royal premiere in London |
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1964 |
Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President |
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1966 |
The Nigerian Civil War begins, as with federal troops invade Biafra |
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1967 |
The Comoros declares independence from France |
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1975 |
166 lives are lost in the explosion of the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha – the world's worst
offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life |
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1988 |
Sixteen passengers on a commuter bus from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem lose their lives when a member of the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad takes control of the bus and drives it over a cliff into a ravine |
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1989 |
Serbian forces under General Ratko Mladić begin their attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica |
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1995 |
Prince Noroda Ranaridh, prime minister of Cambodia, is ousted by Hun Sen's coup (supported by Pol Pot) |
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1997 |
Riots throughout Northern Ireland follow the Orangemen's march through Portadown, including Garvaghy Road |
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1997 |
Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport |
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1998 |
Selly Oak, Birmingham, is hit by a 'twister' (a funnel cloud which, unlike a tornado, doesn't touch the ground) |
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1999 |
After Germany wins the right to host the 2006 World Cup finals by 12 votes to South Africa's 11, the single
abstainer – New Zealand's Charlie Dempsey (78) – cites "intolerable pressure" as his reason |
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2000 |
The 70–metre Planetary Radar at Yevpatoria, on the Crimean peninsula, sends a message to anyone who might be
listening in the region of five selected stars – to arrive in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049 respectively |
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2003 |
HM the Queen opens the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park |
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2004 |
London wins the competition to host the 2012 Olympic games |
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2005 |
The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during a border conflict in 1962, re–opens for trade |
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2006 |
At least 42 people are shot dead at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria |
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2013 |
At least 47 people lose their lives, and more than 30 buildings are destroyed, when a 73–car oil train derails
and explodes into flames in the town of Lac–Mégantic, Quebec |
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2013 |