Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
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.
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.
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on the 21st August 1911.
Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy, otherwise known as a Ph.D.
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.
On the 2nd June 1946, Italians voted in a referendum to abolish the monarchy and turn their country into a republic.
On the 23rd May 1915, Italy entered the First World War on the side of the Triple Entente and declared war on Austria-Hungary.
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed the Triple Alliance.
12th April 1945: Harry Truman becomes president of the USA
12th April 2021
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
10th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019