On the 18th August 1612, the trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches began.
9th November 1918: Wilhelm II abdicates as Kaiser of Germany
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John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in school.
On the 24th June 1374, people in Aachen in Germany suddenly and mysteriously began dancing in the streets and didn’t stop for many weeks.
The 22nd June 1633 saw Galileo Galilei, the famed scientist, was found “vehemently suspect of heresy” by the Papal Inquisition and forced to recant his belief in the heliocentric universe originally put forward by Copernicus ninety years previously.
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in Saigon.
The Indian Mutiny, also known as the First War of Indian Independence, began in Meerut.
On the 7th May 1794, just a few weeks before the Law of 22nd Prairial that created the Great Terror, Maximilien Robespierre formally announced the creation of the Cult of the Supreme Being in a meeting of the National Convention.
On the 7th April 1498, a group of Franciscan monks met their Dominican rivals in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to take part in the first trial by fire in 400 years.
The Book of Mormon is a key sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that was published by Joseph Smith, the founder of the movement, when he was twenty-four years old.
On the 23rd March 1540, Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved by Henry VIII.
22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published
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21st September 1937: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is first published
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19th September 1970: The First Glastonbury Festival takes place in Somerset
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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