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1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

1st June 2023
Tagged as: Alcohol, James IV, Monastery, Scotland, Whisky

The royal Exchequer Rolls from Scotland recorded the first known written reference to Scotch whisky.

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8th June 793: Viking raiders attack Lindisfarne in Northumbria

8th June 2022
Tagged as: Anglo-Saxon, Britain, Christianity, Danelaw, England, Lindisfarne, Monastery, Norse, Northumbria, Paganism, Scandinavia, Vikings

Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the ‘Viking’ period of British history.

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23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII

23rd March 2022
Tagged as: Catholicism, Christianity, Church, Dissolution of the monasteries, Essex, Henry VIII, Monastery, Reformation, Tudor, Waltham Abbey

Abbot Robert Fuller surrendered the abbey and its property on 23 March 1540, and within just a few years all the buildings except for the parish nave had been demolished or had collapsed due to neglect.

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1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

8th June 793: Viking raiders attack Lindisfarne in Northumbria

23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII

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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

1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the final entry of his famous diary that records the period of the Restoration

30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England

29th May 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and defeats the Byzantine Empire

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

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

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