Scott Allsop's Blog, page 68
June 17, 2023
18th June 1887: Germany and Russia sign the secret Reinsurance Treaty
Germany and Russia signed the secret Reinsurance Treaty that ensured they would each remain neutral if the other went to war with a third European ...
June 16, 2023
17th June 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbour on board the French steamship Isère
The statue arrived disassembled, and remained in its 210 separate crates for 10 months while construction of the enormous pedestal it was to stand on was ...
June 15, 2023
16th June 1846: Pope Pius IX begins the longest ever reign of a Catholic Pope
Born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, Pius IX’s election by the Papal conclave of 1846 came at a time of significant political unrest across ...
June 14, 2023
15th June 1215: Magna Carta approved by King John at Runnymede near Windsor in England
Magna Carta, which is Latin for ‘the Great Charter’, confirmed the principle that everyone including the king was subject to the law of the land and gave all free men the right to justice and a fair ...
June 13, 2023
14th June 1645: The Battle of Naseby fought in the English Civil War
The Battle of Naseby, a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, was fought between the Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model ...
June 12, 2023
13th June 1944: First Nazi attack on Britain using the V-1 flying bomb, otherwise known as the ‘doodlebug’
The very first V-1 flying bomb exploded near a railway bridge in Mile End, London, killing eight ...
June 11, 2023
12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear down this wall!’
US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this ...
June 10, 2023
11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens
The violence grew to involve around 1,000 people on both sides who also broke into houses and destroyed ...
June 9, 2023
10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists
Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian socialist politician, was kidnapped and then murdered by members of the Fascist ...
June 8, 2023
9th June 1815: ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna signed, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
The Final Act of the Congress set in place a map of Europe that remained largely unchanged for the next forty years, and which laid the foundations for the First World ...
