This Week In History
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01 Nov
The First View of the paintings on the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel
- 1st November 1512 -
Pope Julius II celebrated his first mass in the Sistine Chapel for four years on All Saints’ Day 1512 due to, what might be called in modern...
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30 Nov
The Death of Oscar Wilde
- 30thNovember 1900 -
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”
These were reportedly the last words of Oscar Wilder before he died of meningitis in a seedy Paris...
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06 Dec
The Death of Anthony Trollope
- 6th December 1882 -
From a childhood that was unhappy, uncertain, in terms of a stable home, and socially awkward to a career in the Civil Service that was, in many ways, unimpressive by his own admission,...
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30 Nov
The Death of Oscar Wilde
- 30th November 1900 -
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”
These were reportedly the last words of Oscar Wilder before he died of meningitis in a seedy Paris...
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30 Sep
The First Performance of the Magic Flute
- Vienna, September 30th 1791 -
The music critic Neville Cardus wrote that The Magic Flute is, “the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.” Beethoven considered the...
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