Denis Diderot died, 1784
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All slaves emancipated in British Empire, 1834
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In March 1807, as a response to the growing popularity of the…
Japanese feudal caste system abolished, 1869
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa For over six-hundred years a series of Shogun dynasties had dominated Japanese…
Sir Richard Arkwright died, 1792
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa Richard Arkwright, pioneer of industrialisation, was born on 23rd December 1732 in…
First English colony in North America founded, 1583
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In June 1578, Sir Humphrey Gilbert – soldier, Member of Parliament, and…
Kon Tiki expedition ended, 1947
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In the early 1940s, a Norwegian ethnographer called Thor Heyerdahl proposed that…
First ascent of Mont Blanc, 1786
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In the mid-eighteenth century the Swiss aristocrat and naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure…
First Scouting camp ended, 1907
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In 1899 Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Baden-Powell published Aids to Scouting, a manual of reconnaissance…
Last steam-hauled mainline passenger train on British Railways, 1968
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa On 11th August 1968 a special train set off from Liverpool Lime…
Foundation stone of Royal Greenwich Observatory laid, 1675
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa On 4th March 1675, King Charles II issued a royal warrant appointing…
The quagga became extinct, 1883
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa The quagga were an equine species, similar to the zebra but with…
First Jefferson Airplane gig, 1965
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In the early 1960s, the singer Marty Buchwald signed to Challenge Records,…
Cologne Cathedral completed, 1880
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In 1164, Cologne’s Archbishop Rainald von Dassel brought the relics of the…
Peterloo Massacre, 1819
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In spite of victory, the Napoleonic Wars left Britain with chronic economic…
Indonesian independence declared, 1945
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In the early sixteenth century, Portuguese explorers arrived in Indonesia seeking a…
Battle of Lower Sioux Agency, 1862
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In 1851, the United States government signed a pair of treaties with…
Tucson, Arizona founded, 1775
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa Hugh O’Connor was born in Dublin in 1732 into an aristocratic family.…
Buffalo Nine arrested, 1968
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In the summer of 1968, a group of anti-war protesters centred on…
Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia, 1968
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa In January 1968, Alexander Dubček became First Secretary of the Communist Party…
Haitian Revolution, 1791
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa At the time of the Storming of the Bastille in Paris, the…