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25th June 1678: Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a PhD

25th June 2020
Tagged as: Education, Feminism, Italy, Padua, Philosophy, Renaissance, Venice

Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy, otherwise known as a Ph.D.

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28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

28th May 2020
Tagged as: Anatolia, Ancient, Ancient Greece, Eclipse, Herodotus, Lydia, Media, Middle East, Philosophy, Science, Thales

A solar eclipse during the Battle of Halys led to a truce between the kingdoms of Media and Lydia, making it the earliest historical event that can be precisely dated.

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25th June 1678: Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a PhD

28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

3rd November 1534: English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy

5th December 1952: The Great Smog descends on London and last for four days

5th March 1046: Persian poet Nasir Khusraw’s 7-year journey through the Islamic world results in the Safarnama

4th March 1789: First US Congress meets under new Constitution

3rd March 1857: The largest ever sale of enslaved people in the United States, known as the Weeping Time

2nd March 1965: USA launches Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam

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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