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1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War.

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A short, sharp hit of history in video format. Acclaimed Irish playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde was the toast of London society in the 1890s until things came decidedly unstuck through an association with a young British aristocrat, Lord Alfred Douglas, known as ‘Bosie’.

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I was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland.
I was the eldest of ten siblings.
I was a brilliant student at University College Dublin, studying English, French and Italian.
I once wrote “For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin, I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world.”
I was a modernist author best known for Ulysses published in 1922.

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HistoryWow’s Highlighted Historical Quotation

“I have enjoyed the veneration of my country, and the riches of the world. There is no object I do not have, nothing I have not experienced. But now that I have reached old age, I cannot rest easy for a moment.”

The Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722), Chinese ruler.

Source: The Dragon Throne by Jonathan Fenby

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HistoryWow’s Featured Historical Figure of Note

John Hunter (1728-1793)

British surgeon and anatomist. In his youth he was a cabinet maker in Glasgow but went to London to study surgery. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon-extraordinary by King George III. He built an anatomical museum in Leicester Square in 1784-85. His principal writings included ‘On the Venereal Disease and Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds’.