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7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities

7th February 2021
Tagged as: Culture, Florence, Italy, Medici, Religion, Renaissance, Savonarola

Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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26th April 1478: The Pazzi family launch their failed plot against the Medici family

26th April 2020
Tagged as: Conspiracy, Florence, Italy, Medici, Murder, Pazzi, Renaissance

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.

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16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy

16th January 2019
Tagged as: Antipope, Banking, Finance, John XXIII, Medici, Medieval, Papacy, Religion, Renaissance, Rome, Vatican

Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the Papacy.

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7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities

26th April 1478: The Pazzi family launch their failed plot against the Medici family

16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy

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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

24th May 1943: Josef Mengele, the Nazi Angel of Death, transferred to Auschwitz

23rd May 1915: Italy enters the First World War on the side of the Triple Entente and declares war on Austria-Hungary

22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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