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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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18th October 1565: European and Japanese naval forces fight for the first time

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27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

17th November 1978: CBS broadcast the heavily-criticised Star Wars Holiday Special

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1956: Million Dollar Quartet record at Sun Studios

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

2nd December 1804: Napoleon crowns himelf Emperor of the French

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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