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

25th June 2018
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 2018
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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2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

11th January 1569: First recorded lottery drawn in England under Elizabeth I

23rd April 1516: The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law first introduced in Bavaria

2nd May 1945: The Battle of Berlin ends with the German surrender to the USSR

24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act

23rd February 303: Start of Emperor Diocletian’s ‘Great Persecution’

22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard

21st February 1613: Romanov dynasty begins under Michael I of Russia

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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