On the same day, the First Balkan War breaks out, with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece against Turkey.ġ918: Czechoslovakia declares independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.ġ922: The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation.ġ931: Gangster Al Capone is convicted of tax evasion. Forster is published.ġ912: The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Italo-Turkish War.
1009: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the church’s foundations down to bedrock.ġ356: The most significant historic earthquaket north of the Alps, destroys Basel in Switzerland.ġ667: The English fleet plunders plantations in Suriname.ġ685: Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes cancelling the rights of French Protestants.ġ748: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Austrian Succession.ġ855: Premiere of Franz Listz’s symphonic poem “Prometheus”.ġ859: Birth of French philosopher Henri Bergson.ġ860: The Second Opium War ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin.ġ867: The US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia after paying $7.2million.ġ871: Mathematician and inventor of the calculator, Charles Babbage, dies of renal failure aged 79.ġ878: Thomas Edison makes electricity available for household use.ġ892: The first commercial long-distance phone line opens between Chicago and New York.ġ904: Gustav Mahler’s 5 th symphony premieres in Cologne.ġ910: Howard’s End by E.M.
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