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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

18th April 2018
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

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

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12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

27th October 1988: Ronald Reagan halts construction of the new US embassy in Moscow

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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