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In 1618, Protestant Bohemian nobles hurled two Catholic regents and a secretary out of a window at Prague Castle to protest Habsburg rule. All three survived the fall, but the inci…
— Historical event, Defenestrations of Prague
In 1857, Indian soldiers serving the British East India Company rebelled after rumors spread that new rifle cartridges, which had to be bitten open, were greased with cow and pig f…
— Historical event, Indian Rebellion of 1857
The 1918 influenza pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, more than World War I itself. It became known as the 'Spanish flu' largely because wartime censorship s…
— Historical event, Spanish flu
The 1943 Bengal famine killed an estimated 2 to 3 million people under British colonial rule in India, driven by wartime inflation, hoarding, cyclone damage and administrative fail…
— Historical event, Bengal famine of 1943
When the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was founded in 1602, it raised capital by selling tradable shares to the public, an early form of the joint-stock company. To let investors …
— Historical event, Dutch East India Company
Introduced in 1696 to raise government revenue without a hated income tax, England's window tax charged homeowners based on how many windows their house had. Many simply bricked up…
— Historical event, Window tax