Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War
17th January 2018
Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the Papacy.
The Pazzi family in Florence launched their unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Medici family with an assassination attempt against the brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018