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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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3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

9th September 1956: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

2nd August 216 BCE: Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae

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

24th August 1967: Abbie Hoffman throws money inside the NY Stock Exchange

23rd August 1944: King Michael of Romania leads a coup d’etat against Ion Antonescu

22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue

21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA

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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