Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
4th August 221: The death of Lady Zhen of the Three Kingdoms
4th August 2018
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.
28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents
28th January 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019