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9th October 1410: The Prague Astronomical Clock first noted in a medieval document

9th October 2019
Tagged as: Astronomy, Engineering, Medieval, Prague, Science, Technology, Time

Known as the Orloj, the astronomical clock was designed and built by the Imperial clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Charles University professor Jan Šindel.

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23rd May 1618: Officials thrown from a window in the Second Defenestration of Prague

23rd May 2019
Tagged as: Bohemia, Catholicism, Holy Roman Empire, Prague, Protestantism, Thirty Years War

Two Catholic imperial officials and their secretary were thrown out of the window of the Bohemian Chancellery in the Second Defenestration of Prague.

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9th October 1410: The Prague Astronomical Clock first noted in a medieval document

23rd May 1618: Officials thrown from a window in the Second Defenestration of Prague

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26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

2nd September 31 BCE: Marc Antony and Cleopatra defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium

20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

3rd July 1940: British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

29th September 1938: The Munich Conference agrees the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War

27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit

26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

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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