Mathew Lyons

The first of three articles that proved the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery was published in The Times on 16 August 1921.

An unprecedented force of 86,000 men fought against Hannibal’s Carthaginian army on 2 August 216 BC.

Atahualpa, the last true emperor of the Incas, was killed on 26 July 1533.

The aviator’s plane disappeared on a circumnavigation of the world on 2 July 1937.

Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar, was born on 10 June 1893.

The monks at the church of St Cuthbert were taken by surprise on 8 June 793.

Charges were brought against Peter von Hagenbach at the ‘first international war crimes trial’, held on 9 May 1474.

Madame Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, died on 8 May 1891.

Peter Abelard, lover of Heloise, died on 21 April 1142.

John Spilsbury, the engraver behind the ‘dissected’ map, died on 3 April 1769.