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Bonus puzzle #9 answers
Starting event: The Telefunken brand is launched (1903)
The full timeline
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820
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1185Politics
The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia
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1460War
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton
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1684Science
Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society
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1729Birth
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, is born
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1824Politics
Temenggong Abdul Rahman of Johor and Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor ceded the governance of Singapore to the British East India Company
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1836War
At least 425 Texian prisoners of war were executed in the Goliad massacre, under orders from Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna
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1838
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1868
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1903
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1938
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1939Disaster
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duchess collided with HMS Barham, the battleship she was escorting, and Duchess sank with heavy loss of life
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1957History
The revised Thai criminal code came into force, strengthening the law on lèse-majesté in Thailand to include insult and treating it as a crime against national security
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1958
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1971History
Joetha Collier, a recent high school graduate, was killed in Drew, Mississippi, in a case that attracted widespread attention from civil rights activists
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1985Exploration
The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel
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1988
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1990Transport
In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries
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2008
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2014
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2018