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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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16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

15th June 1859: The Pig War begins between the USA and Britain

14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain

2nd August 1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad becomes San Francisco’s first cable car

1st August 1981: Cable music television channel MTV is launched

31st July 1790: The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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