The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
On the 29th May 1453 the troops of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II successfully took control of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
On the 17th May 1902, an ancient analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism was first identified by Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais.
On the 6th April 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.
The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.