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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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12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

8th October 1871: The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the most deadly wildfire in recorded history

17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR

29th October 1964: ‘Murf the Surf’ and two accomplices carry out the biggest jewel heist in New York’s history

28th October 1971: Prospero, the only British satellite launched with a British rocket

27th October 1960: Ben E. King records Stand By Me

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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