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1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, and one of the world’s oldest, is published in Copenhagen. More at: History
The Medici’s were a remarkable political dynasty, banking family and later royal house in Florence, Italy. Over 400 years, two Medici’s became queens of France and three became pope. In the words of Professor Niall Ferguson, however, ‘prior to the 1390s the Medici’s were Florence’s answer to the Sopranos, and were a small time clan…
