Michelangelo’s David is considered to be one of the greatest examples of Renaissance sculpture.
20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France
20th July 2019
Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
The Pazzi family in Florence launched their unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Medici family with an assassination attempt against the brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici.
24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard
24th January 2020
22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg
22nd January 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018