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On this day, November 1
1512
The artwork painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was exhibited to the public for the first time.
1604
At Whitehall Palace in...
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On this day, October 25
1616
Dutch Captain Dirk Hartog made the second recorded landing on Australian soil by a European. This island of the West Australian coast was later...
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On this day, October 18
1775
The first published African-American female poet, Phillis Wheatley, was freed from slavery.
1851
Under the title The Whale, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was first published by Richard...
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On this day, October 11
1582
This date does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain due to their adoption of the Gregorian Calendar that year.
1634
A...
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On this day, October 4
1795
Napoleon Bonaparte of France was nationally recognized for suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters to protect the National Convention.
1824
Mexico, adopting a new constitution, became a federal...
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On this day, September 27
1066
William the Conqueror set sail to begin the Norman conquest of England. The Norman conquest would go on to be the advent of the...