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25th April 404 BCE: Sparta defeats Athens in the Peloponnesian War

25th April 2022
Tagged as: Ancient Greece, Athens, Greece, Navy, Persia, Sparta, War

The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.

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28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

28th May 2020
Tagged as: Anatolia, Ancient, Ancient Greece, Eclipse, Herodotus, Lydia, Media, Middle East, Philosophy, Science, Thales

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.

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25th April 404 BCE: Sparta defeats Athens in the Peloponnesian War

28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

30th March 1939: Batman makes his first appearance when Detective Comics #27 went goes on sale

29th March 1974: Discovery of the Terracotta Army in Xi’an, China

28th March 1942: Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid by British forces in WW2

27th March 1915: Typhoid Mary placed in permanent quarantine in New York

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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