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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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16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

15th June 1859: The Pig War begins between the USA and Britain

14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

5th August 1861: Abraham Lincoln signs US income tax into law to help pay for the American Civil War

4th August 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the First World War

3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain

2nd August 1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad becomes San Francisco’s first cable car

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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