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18th April 1506: Construction begins on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome

18th April 2020
Tagged as: Architecture, Catholicism, Church, Constantine the Great, Julius II, Michelangelo, Papacy, Renaissance, Rome, Urban VIII, Vatican, Vatican City

Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred buildings.

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27th September 1590: Pope Urban VII dies, ending the the shortest papal reign in history

27th September 2019
Tagged as: Catholicism, Europe, Mexico, Papacy, Papal States, Pope, Rome, Smoking, Tobacco, Urban VII, Urban VIII, Vatican

The shortest papacy in history ended after just twelve days following the death of Pope Urban VII, shortly after he introduced Europe’s first smoking ban.

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18th April 1506: Construction begins on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome

27th September 1590: Pope Urban VII dies, ending the the shortest papal reign in history

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11th July 1922: The Hollywood Bowl opens in Los Angeles

29th July 1588: Decisive Battle of Gravelines during the Spanish Armada

17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome

6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world

17th January 1991: Gulf War combat begins with Operation Desert Storm

16th January 1919: Nebraska becomes the vital 36th of the 48 states to approve prohibition in the 18th Amendment

15th January 1919: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg killed by Freikorps

14th January 1973: Elvis Presley makes the first solo headline satellite broadcast in Aloha From Hawaii

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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