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27th September 1590: Pope Urban VII dies, ending the the shortest papal reign in history

27th September 2019
Tagged as: Catholicism, Europe, Mexico, Papacy, Papal States, Pope, Rome, Smoking, Tobacco, Urban VII, Urban VIII, Vatican

The shortest papacy in history ended after just twelve days following the death of Pope Urban VII, shortly after he introduced Europe’s first smoking ban.

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16th June 1846: Pope Pius IX begins the longest ever reign of a Catholic Pope

16th June 2019
Tagged as: Catholicism, Italy, Liberalism, Papacy, Papal States, Pius IX, Pope, Religion, Vatican City

Born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, Pius IX’s election by the Papal conclave of 1846 came at a time of significant political unrest across Europe.

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27th September 1590: Pope Urban VII dies, ending the the shortest papal reign in history

16th June 1846: Pope Pius IX begins the longest ever reign of a Catholic Pope

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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram

16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opened as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre

15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster

14th April 1561: Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon terrifies residents

13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre

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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