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29th May 1453: The Fall of Constantinople

29th May 2020
Tagged as: Byzantine Empire, Greece, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Renaissance, Turkey

On the 29^th May 1453 the troops of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II successfully took control of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

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27th November 1095: Pope Urban II launches the First Crusade

27th November 2019
Tagged as: Byzantine Empire, Christianity, Crusade, Holy Land, Islam, Jerusalem, Pope, Religion, Urban II, War

On the 27^th November 1095, Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade with an impassioned speech at the Council of Clermont.

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15th October 1764: Edward Gibbon first considers The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

15th October 2019
Tagged as: Byzantine Empire, Edward Gibbon, Empire, Grand Tour, Machiavelli, Roman Empire, Rome, Temple of Jupiter

Gibbon’s six volume history traces the collapse of the Roman Empire from the rule of the Five Good Emperors until the end of Byzantium.

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29th May 1453: The Fall of Constantinople

27th November 1095: Pope Urban II launches the First Crusade

15th October 1764: Edward Gibbon first considers The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation

18th August 1920: Ratification of the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees female suffrage

13th December 902: Æthelwold’s revolt against Edward the Elder is defeated

23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

20th June 1945: The United States approves the transfer of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to America

19th June 1978: Garfield cartoon strip first published

18th June 1812: The War of 1812 began when President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain

17th June 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York from France

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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