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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

27th September 2017
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

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

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6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA

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

4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

15th September 1830: William Huskisson killed on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David

12th September 1919: Hitler joins the German Workers Party

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

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

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