HistoryPod

  • Timeline
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Support
  • 366 Days: the book

This is a placeholder for your sticky navigation bar. It should not be visible.

Tag: Italy

  • Podcast

7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities

  • 7th February 2021
  • Tagged as: Culture, Florence, Italy, Medici, Religion, Renaissance, Savonarola

Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.

Read More
  • Podcast

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

  • 11th November 2020
  • Tagged as: Armistice, Britain, First World War, France, Germany, Italy, Treaty, War, Wilhelm II, Wilson

On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of Compiègne.

Read More
  • Podcast

29th September 1938: The Munich Conference agrees the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

  • 29th September 2020
  • Tagged as: Appeasement, Britain, Chamberlain, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hitler, Italy, Mussolini, Second World War

On the 29th September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reached an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland areas of Czechoslovakia.

Read More
  • Podcast

24th August AD 79: Mount Vesuvius destroys Pompeii & Herculaneum

  • 24th August 2020
  • Tagged as: Archaeology, Italy, Natural Disaster, Roman Empire, Rome, Volcano

The 24th August AD 79 is traditionally believed to have been the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Read More
  • Podcast

21st August 1911: The Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre

  • 21st August 2020
  • Tagged as: Art, Crime, Criminal, France, Italy, Theft

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on the 21st August 1911.

Read More
  • Podcast

25th June 1678: Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a PhD

  • 25th June 2020
  • Tagged as: Education, Feminism, Italy, Padua, Philosophy, Renaissance, Venice

Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy, otherwise known as a Ph.D.

Read More
  • Podcast

22nd June 1633: Galileo forced to recant his belief in heliocentrism

  • 22nd June 2020
  • Tagged as: Church, Italy, Pope, Religion, Renaissance, Science, Space

The 22nd June 1633 saw Galileo Galilei, the famed scientist, was found “vehemently suspect of heresy” by the Papal Inquisition and forced to recant his belief in the heliocentric universe originally put forward by Copernicus ninety years previously.

Read More
  • Podcast

2nd June 1946: Italians vote to turn their country into a republic

  • 2nd June 2020
  • Tagged as: Constitution, Italy, Monarchy, Mussolini, Referendum, Republic, Second World War

On the 2nd June 1946, Italians voted in a referendum to abolish the monarchy and turn their country into a republic.

Read More
  • Podcast

23rd May 1915: Italy enters WW1 on the side of the Triple Entente

  • 23rd May 2020
  • Tagged as: Alliances, Austria-Hungary, Britain, First World War, France, Germany, Italy, War

On the 23rd May 1915, Italy entered the First World War on the side of the Triple Entente and declared war on Austria-Hungary.

Read More
  • Podcast

20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance

  • 20th May 2020
  • Tagged as: Austria-Hungary, Central Powers, Dual Alliance, First World War, Germany, Italy, Romania, Triple Alliance

Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed the Triple Alliance.

Read More
1 2 3 4 »

Tags

Aircraft America Assassination Britain Catholicism Civil Rights Cold War Communism Criminal Culture Economy England Execution First World War France Germany Hitler Invention Italy Law London Military Monarchy Murder Music Navy Nazi New York Politics Racism Religion Revolution Russia Science Scotland Second World War Ship Spain Sport Technology United Kingdom United States USA USSR War

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Visit us on Google+
 
  • Popular
  • Recent
  • Commented
Birmingham pub bombings

21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

21st November 2020

Leaning Tower of Pisa

9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

9th August 2019

Tybee Island bomb

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

5th February 2021

Apartheid referendum

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

17th March 2021

Truman

12th April 1945: Harry Truman becomes president of the USA

12th April 2021

Fair Housing Act

11th April 1968: The Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by President Johnson

11th April 2021

The Casting of Big Ben

10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel

10th April 2021

John Hancock

9th April 1767: John Hancock forcibly removes British customs officials from his ship

9th April 2021

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

28th June 2020

Armistice

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

11th November 2020

German invasion of Poland

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

1st September 2018

Berlin Wall opened

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

9th November 2019

HistoryPod by MrAllsopHistory.com
© Scott Allsop
  • Timeline
  • Support
  • Subscribe
  • Front Page
  • About
  • Archive
  • Privacy Policy