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   🫖 The Boston Tea Party 1773

   Colonists disguised as Native Americans threw more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. Source

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   🧹 Anna Göldi, "the last witch", is executed in Switzerland 1782

   One of the last people executed for witchcraft in Europe, six years after the US declared independence. Her canton cleared her name in 2008. Source

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   🪨 The Rosetta Stone is found 1799

   French soldiers found it during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. It has been in the British Museum since 1802. Source

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   ⛪ The Spanish Inquisition is abolished for good 1834

   Napoleon's brother had abolished it, but King Ferdinand VII brought it back in 1814. Its last execution was in 1826. Source

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   🚇 The London Underground opens 1863

   It was the world's first underground railway, running between Paddington and Farringdon. Source

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   ⚔️ Japan bans samurai from carrying swords 1876

   So Japan still had sword-carrying samurai when the London Underground opened. Source

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