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1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards – where anti-Catholic posters appeared in Paris – the French king leads an anti-Protestant procession through Paris. 1789 – The first American novel ‘The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth’ is printed in Boston, Massachusetts. If it hoped to be a Hollywood…
In 1840, British newspaper The Times described how west London ‘appears as one besieged, the shops being shut and the windows of the houses barricaded with hurdles to prevent them being destroyed. Numerous accidents happen, no person while walking the streets being free from danger.’ What was the newspaper referring to?
