Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
17th October 1933: Einstein moves to the USA after Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
17th October 2017
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
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017