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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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16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy

20th October 1740: Maria Theresa inherits the Austrian throne

19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

25th December 1914: The Christmas Truce takes place at sections along the Western Front

12th May 1949: Stalin lifts the Berlin Blockade

11th May 868: The world’s earliest dated printed book created in China

10th May 1801: The First Barbary War began when Tripoli declared war on the United States

9th May 1671: Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels

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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