The royal Exchequer Rolls from Scotland recorded the first known written reference to Scotch whisky.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Pepys had begun writing his diary in January 1660. Since being published in 1825 it has become an important source for historians studying the period of the Restoration. He stopped writing due to a fear that constant writing by candlelight was damaging his eyesight.
The Peasants’ Revolt was triggered when John Bampton arrived in Essex to investigate non-payment of the poll tax.
The troops of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II successfully took control of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
A solar eclipse during the Battle of Halys led to a truce between the kingdoms of Media and Lydia, making it the earliest historical event that can be precisely dated.
John ruled for seventeen years before contracting dysentery while in Kings Lynn, an illness from which he later died.
Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.
Kennedy’s $24 billion of investment did work, and Apollo 11 achieved Kennedy’s goal by landing on the moon on 20 July 1969.
The first Eurovision Song Contest featured only seven countries, and was broadcast across Europe using a terrestrial microwave relay network that linked the countries of Europe together like an invisible spider’s web.
Two Catholic imperial officials and their secretary were thrown out of the window of the Bohemian Chancellery in the Second Defenestration of Prague.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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