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1512
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Michelangelo's fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace is made available for public viewing for the first time | |
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1611
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The Tempest by William Shakespeare was supposedly performed for the first time | |
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1755
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Lisbon Portugal is hit by an earthquake that destroyed more than 9000 buildings and killed around 30000 persons | |
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1765
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The first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all American colonial commercial and legal papers called The Stamp Act went into effect | |
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1952
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First thermonuclear bomb tested by the United States at the Marshall Islands | |
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