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

10th January 2026
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

31st October 2024
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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28th October 1922: Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts approach the Italian capital in the March on Rome

28th October 2023
Tagged as: Fascism, Italy, March on Rome, Mussolini, Rome, Victor Emmanuel III

Mussolini and up to 30,000 supporters from across the country, the Blackshirts, embarked on a calculated and audacious march to Rome to seize power.

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

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

28th October 1922: Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts approach the Italian capital in the March on Rome

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

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

8th September 1941: Start of the Siege of Leningrad

7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz

6th September 1914: First Battle of the Marne begins with a French counter-offensive against the advancing German army

5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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