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1793·Europe·Politics

Marat Assassinated in His Bath

Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer from Caen, talked her way into Jean-Paul Marat's apartment with a list of traitors and stabbed him in the chest as he soaked his diseased skin in medicated water. David painted him dying. Corday was guillotined four days later. The Montagnards now had a martyr.

July 13, 1793Enlightenment
1878·Europe·Politics

Congress of Berlin

Under Bismarck's iron chairmanship, the great powers revised the Treaty of San Stefano, cutting Bulgaria down to size, giving Cyprus to Britain, and Bosnia to Austria to administer. Russia felt robbed. Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania got their independence. The settlement lasted nearly forty years, until the Balkans blew up on everyone.

July 13, 1878Industrial Age
2024·North America·Politics

Trump survives assassination attempt in Butler

A gunman opened fire at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing Donald Trump and killing one spectator. The attack became one of the defining images of the 2024 campaign and intensified political tensions in the United States.

July 13, 2024Contemporary
1024·Europe·Politics

Death of Emperor Henry II

The last Ottonian ruler, a limping, pious bureaucrat who founded Bamberg and crushed Italian revolts, died at his hunting lodge at Grone. He left no son. The German princes gathered at Kamba on the Rhine to choose a successor, ushering in the Salian dynasty and a new era. His wife Kunigunde retired to a convent, and both were eventually canonized as saints by the Church.

July 13, 1024High Middle Ages
1771·Europe·Exploration

Endeavour Returns to England

After three years, a scurvy-free crew (Cook had forced them to eat sauerkraut), a dead botanist's assistant, and 30,000 plant specimens, Endeavour reached the Downs. Banks became a celebrity; Cook was quietly promoted. London's drawing rooms buzzed with news of a new world of upside-down animals. Banks would go on to preside over the Royal Society for forty-one years, shaping British science and exploration.

July 13, 1771Enlightenment
1985·Europe·Culture

Live Aid

Bob Geldof staged simultaneous concerts at Wembley and Philadelphia to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief. Queen's twenty-minute set would become legend. Broadcast to a billion and a half people in over a hundred countries, Live Aid raised more than a hundred million dollars and made celebrity humanitarianism a permanent feature of the world.

July 13, 1985Modern Era
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