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4th July 1862: Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland

4th July 2019
Tagged as: Books, Culture, England, Literature, Mathematics, Novel, Oxford, Printing

Charles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

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10th February 1355: St Scholastica’s Day Riot began in Oxford between ‘town and gown’

10th February 2018
Tagged as: Edward III, Fighting, Medieval, Mob, Oxford, Riot, Student, University, Violence

Tensions between university students and the locals of Oxford had been building for some time before violence broke out.

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4th July 1862: Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland

10th February 1355: St Scholastica’s Day Riot began in Oxford between ‘town and gown’

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12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

27th October 1988: Ronald Reagan halts construction of the new US embassy in Moscow

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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