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21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris

21st August 2022
Tagged as: Art, Crime, Criminal, Culture, Da Vinci, France, Italy, Louvre, Mona Lisa, Painting, Paris, Robbery, Theft

Vincenzo Peruggia served just six months in jail for the robbery, and was hailed by many Italians as a nationalist hero for returning the Mona Lisa to her real home although it was later returned to France.

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10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time

10th August 2022
Tagged as: Art, Culture, France, French Revolution, Louvre, Museum, Paris

The Louvre museum in Paris opened to the public in the former palace of the French royal family.

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21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris

10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time

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2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

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31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the final entry of his famous diary that records the period of the Restoration

30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England

29th May 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and defeats the Byzantine Empire

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

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