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10th April 1858: Big Ben, the bell inside the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster, was cast

  • 10th April 2023
  • Tagged as: Bell, Britain, Clock, England, London, Parliament, Time, Westminster
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The bell has chimed the hours almost non-stop since it first rang in July 1859, over a year after the bell itself was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

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2nd November 1868: New Zealand becomes the first country to use standardised time

  • 2nd November 2022
  • Tagged as: Britain, Date, Law, New Zealand, Railways, Telegraph, Time, Train

Prior to the adoption of universally accepted time zones, the vast majority of settlements around the world observed local mean solar time.

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4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar

  • 4th October 2022
  • Tagged as: Calendar, Catholicism, Date, Papacy, Pope, Pope Gregory XIII, Rome, Time
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By the 16th Century a sizable drift had developed between the Julian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the real moon which the new calendar sought to resolve.

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5th February 1924: Greenwich time signal ‘pips’ broadcast by the BBC for the first time

  • 5th February 2022
  • Tagged as: BBC, Broadcast, Clock, Culture, Greenwich, Radio, Time

Although now largely inaccurate as a result of the inherent delay in the encoding, transmission, and decoding of digital radio broadcasts, the Greenwich Time Signal pips are still a part of many BBC radio programmes.

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9th October 1410: The Prague Astronomical Clock first noted in a medieval document

  • 9th October 2021
  • 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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22nd October 1884: The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich as the prime meridian

  • 22nd October 2020
  • Tagged as: Geography, Science, Time, Washington DC

The Greenwich Meridian became the international standard for zero degrees longitude, ensuring continuity with most existing nautical charts.

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5th February 1924: The BBC ‘pips’ first broadcast to mark the time

  • 5th February 2020
  • Tagged as: BBC, Britain, Broadcast, Radio, Science, Technology, Time, United Kingdom

On the 5th February 1924 the BBC ‘pips’ were broadcast for the first time.

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4th October 1582: Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII

  • 4th October 2019
  • Tagged as: Astronomy, Calendar, Catholicism, Date, Religion, Science, Time
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On the 4th October 1582, Pope Gregory XIII implemented the Gregorian calendar.

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11th August 3114 BCE: Start of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar

  • 11th August 2019
  • Tagged as: America, Calendar, Mayan, Science, Time

The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, most famously used by the Maya civilisation, began.

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30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England

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29th May 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and defeats the Byzantine Empire

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

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

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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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