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

10th February 2020
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

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’

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

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11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper

8th March 1910: First female pilot’s license awarded to French actress Raymonde de Laroche

29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground

25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

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

7th July 1911: North Pacific Fur Seal Convention signed for wildlife conservation

6th July 1892: The Homestead Strike sees Pinkerton agents fight striking steelworkers

5th July 1946: The bikini swimsuit introduced four days after a Bikini Atoll atomic test

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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