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Bonus puzzle #12 answers
Starting event: Rashtrapati Bhavan officially opens (1929)
The full timeline
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52 BCWar
Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia
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870War
Caliph al-Muhtadi is killed by rebellious troops and is succeeded by his cousin Al-Mu'tamid
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1559
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1706
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1770Exploration
On his first voyage, British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour landed at Botany Bay, making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia
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1833
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1860History
South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States with the South Carolina Declaration of Secession
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1892
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1896
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1918Politics
The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution
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1929
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1939Religion
Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
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1946Politics
Widespread riots between Hindus and Muslims took place in Calcutta following the All-India Muslim League's call for an independent Pakistan
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1952Disaster
A flash flood devastates the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people
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1964Transport
The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) takes place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, United States
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1967
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1971
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1992Science
The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk
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2005
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2009
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2015