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21st April 753 BC: Traditional date of the founding of Rome

21st April 2020
Tagged as: Calendar, Italy, Roman Empire, Rome

On the 21^st April 753 BC, the ancient city of Rome was founded.

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4th October 1582: Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII

4th October 2019
Tagged as: Astronomy, Calendar, Catholicism, Date, Religion, Science, Time

On the 4^th October 1582, Pope Gregory XIII implemented the Gregorian calendar.

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11th August 3114 BCE: Start of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar

11th August 2019
Tagged as: America, Calendar, Mayan, Science, Time

The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, most famously used by the Maya civilisation, began.

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16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar

16th July 2019
Tagged as: Arabia, Astronomy, Calendar, Date, Islam, Muslim, Religion, Science

The Islamic calendar was dated to start with the first new moon after the Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated to Medina.ituals.

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HistoryPod Live: Historical significance. How are events chosen for the daily podcast?

10th July 2017
Tagged as: Calendar, historiography, Islam, Roman Empire, Romania

This extended edition of HistoryPod attempts to answer the most common question from listeners: how and why are certain events featured (or not) in the daily podcast?

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21st April 753 BC: Traditional date of the founding of Rome

4th October 1582: Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII

11th August 3114 BCE: Start of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar

16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar

HistoryPod Live: Historical significance. How are events chosen for the daily podcast?

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24th April 1916: The Easter Rising begins in Dublin

8th May 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ends during the War in the Pacific

2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office

12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama

20th October 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashes during an emergency landing, killing three members of the band

19th October 1953: Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 first published

18th October 1867: The Alaska Purchase completed with the formal transfer from Russia to the United States

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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