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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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20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

28th March 1942: Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid by British forces in WW2

11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

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

24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard

23rd January 1900: British troops launch a nighttime attack on Spion Kop in the Second Boer War

22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg

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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