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28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier

28th December 2025
Tagged as: Book, Books, Censorship, Culture, Education, France, Francis I, Legal Deposit, Library, Print, Printing Press

The Ordonnance de Montpellier required printers and booksellers to deposit a copy of every book published in the kingdom with the royal library.

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6th August 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved following the abdication of Francis II

6th August 2024
Tagged as: Austria, Confederation of the Rhine, France, Francis I, Francis II, French Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon, Prussia, Thirty Years War

In his proclamation he also released all the states and princes of the Empire from their oaths of loyalty to him but continued to rule as Francis I, Emperor of Austria.

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7th June 1520: Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold

7th June 2023
Tagged as: England, Europe, Field of Cloth of Gold, France, Francis I, Henry VIII, Monarchy, Wolsey

In 1518 the English Cardinal Wolsey had negotiated the Treaty of London, a non-aggression pact that was signed by the twenty major European powers of the time.

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28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier

6th August 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved following the abdication of Francis II

7th June 1520: Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold

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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

16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

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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