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7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities

7th February 2021
Tagged as: Culture, Florence, Italy, Medici, Religion, Renaissance, Savonarola

Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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7th April 1498: Savonarola meets to take part in a trial by fire

7th April 2020
Tagged as: Execution, Florence, Italy, Religion, Savonarola, Trial

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.

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7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities

7th April 1498: Savonarola meets to take part in a trial by fire

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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

23rd October 1739: The War of Jenkins’ Ear begins when England declare war on Spain

22nd October 1797: The first high altitude parachute descent

21st October 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar sees the British Navy under the command of Nelson defeat the combined fleets of France and Spain

20th October 1740: Maria Theresa inherits the Austrian throne, prompting the War of the Austrian Succession

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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