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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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9th November 1918: Wilhelm II abdicates as Kaiser of Germany

2nd September 31 BCE: Marc Antony and Cleopatra defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium

26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

6th September 1901: President William McKinley shot at the Pan-American Exposition by Leon Czolgosz

21st September 1937: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is first published

20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match

19th September 1970: The First Glastonbury Festival takes place in Somerset

18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign

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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