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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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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

11th April 1968: The Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by President Johnson

10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel

9th April 1767: John Hancock forcibly removes British customs officials from his ship

8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale

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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