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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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21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

20th September 1835: The start of the Ragamuffin War

23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war

22nd October 1895: Granville-Paris express train crashes through a wall in Paris

21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster

20th October 1935: Mao Zedong’s Red Army finishes the Long March

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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