First established to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, the most important part of the festivities was a horse race held on the final day.
On the 4th August 1693, legend says that French Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon invented champagne.
On the 31st July 1970, the British Royal Navy issued the last daily rum ration, or “tot”, to sailors.
Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for the derelict St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin.
On the 17th October 1814 eight people were killed when nearly one and a half million litres of beer swept out of London’s Horse Shoe Brewery and formed an alcoholic tidal wave that swept down Tottenham Court Road.
The royal Exchequer Rolls from Scotland recorded the first known written reference to Scotch whisky.
The last invasion of Britain by a hostile foreign force began when French troops under the command of the Irish-American Colonel William Tate landed near the Welsh town of Fishguard.
Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.
On the 15th December 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution came into effect, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment which had made the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
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