A Patriotic Murder
Charlotte Corday killed Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793.
Mathew Lyons
A Woman Runs for President
Victoria Claflin Woodhull was ratified as the Equal Rights Party’s candidate for the presidency on 6 June 1872.
A Musical Riot
Igor Stravinsky’s ‘shockingly contemporary’ The Rite of Spring premiered on 29 May 1913.
France’s Kyivan Queen
Anne of Kyiv married Henry I, king of the Franks, on 19 May 1051.
A Medical Break Through
The physician James Parkinson, who lent his name to the medical condition he defined, was born on 11 April 1755.
No Grand Plan
The dissolution of the monasteries as a series of decisions and indecisions.
The Great Wine Blight
The botanist Jules Émile Planchon, who led efforts to find a remedy for phylloxera, died on 1 April 1888.
Birth of an Ottoman Traveller
Evliya Çelebi was born on 25 March 1611.
The End of the Templars
Pope Clement V suppressed the order on 22 March 1312.
Statute of Kilkenny
The parliament of Kilkenny, which passed the eponymous Statute, opened on 18 February 1366.