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31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

31st October 2019
Tagged as: Blackshirts, Fascism, Italy, March on Rome, Mussolini, Revolution, Rome, Victor Emmanuel III

Mussolini, who was determined to restore the glory of the Roman Empire following the ‘mutilated victory’ of the First World War, had formed the precursor to the Fascist Party in 1919.

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10th January 49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River on his march to Rome

10th January 2019
Tagged as: First Triumvirate, Julius Caesar, March on Rome, Pompey, Roman Empire, Rome, Rubicon

Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with the 13th Legion during his march on Rome that led to the Roman Civil War.

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31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

10th January 49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River on his march to Rome

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12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

8th October 1871: The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the most deadly wildfire in recorded history

17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR

29th October 1964: ‘Murf the Surf’ and two accomplices carry out the biggest jewel heist in New York’s history

28th October 1971: Prospero, the only British satellite launched with a British rocket

27th October 1960: Ben E. King records Stand By Me

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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