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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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6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the Hundred Years’ War

17th June 1631: Mumtaz Mahal’s death prompts construction of the Taj Mahal

15th August 1941: Last execution takes place at the Tower of London

14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard

13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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