Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
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.
Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the Papacy.
13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre
13th April 2021
12th April 1945: Harry Truman becomes president of the USA
12th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019