Dates That Made History

2018 8.7

Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination.

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Dates That Made History

33 AD: The Crucifixion of Jesus

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24 September 622: The Hegira

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Dates That Made History

323 BC: Death of Alexander the Great

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Dates That Made History

1492: The New World

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Dates That Made History

20 June 1789: The Tennis Court Oath

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11 February 1990: Liberation of Nelson Mandela

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Dates That Made History

24 August 79: Destruction of Pompeii

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6 August, 1945: Hiroshima

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Dates That Made History

1347: The Beginning of the Black Death

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Dates That Made History

1431: The Fall of Angkor