Tag: Republicanism

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2nd June 1946: Italians vote in a referendum to abolish the monarchy and turn their country into a republic

2nd June 2026
Tagged as: Government, Italy, Monarchy, Mussolini, Politics, Referendum, Republic, Republicanism, Second World War, Umberto II, Victor Emmanuel III

More than 89% of eligible Italian citizens voted in the referendum, with 54.3% voting in favour of turning the country into a republic.

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24th May 1798: United Irishmen Rebellion, also known as the Irish Rebellion of 1798, begins in Ireland

24th May 2024
Tagged as: Britain, Ireland, Irish Republicanism, Rebellion, Republic, Republicanism, Wexford

The United Irishmen, a revolutionary republican organization inspired by Wolfe Tone, saw Irish Protestants join with the Catholic majority to achieve Irish independence and establish a republic.

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3rd September 301: The world’s oldest republic still in existence founded when Saint Marinus establishes San Marino

3rd September 2023
Tagged as: Diocletian, Italy, Republic, Republicanism, Rimini, Roman Empire, Rome, Saint Marinus, San Marino

While the republic’s first government was based on a self-governed assembly known as the Arengo, the current system in San Marino has been in place since the Statutes of 1600.

Tag: Republicanism

2nd June 1946: Italians vote in a referendum to abolish the monarchy and turn their country into a republic

24th May 1798: United Irishmen Rebellion, also known as the Irish Rebellion of 1798, begins in Ireland

3rd September 301: The world’s oldest republic still in existence founded when Saint Marinus establishes San Marino

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great

11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

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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