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4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII

4th March 2022
Tagged as: Bridge, Edinburgh, Edward VII, Forth Bridge, Railways, Science, Scotland, Technology

The Forth Railway Bridge stretches almost 2.5km across the Firth of Forth, a large estuary area to west of Edinburgh.

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10th February 1906: Edward VII launches HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary new type of battleship that made all other ships obsolete

10th February 2022
Tagged as: Arms Race, Britain, Dradnought, Edward VII, First World War, Germany, Navy, Ship

Germany quickly began developing an equivalent ship to the Dreadnought, resulting in a naval arms race that contributed to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

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4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII

10th February 1906: Edward VII launches HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary new type of battleship that made all other ships obsolete

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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

1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the final entry of his famous diary that records the period of the Restoration

30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England

29th May 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and defeats the Byzantine Empire

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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