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49 matches to Hundred Days
Festival of the Supreme Being. 8 June 1794. Declared by Robespierre and designed by David.
Fire of London. 1666. Four days. 87 churches. 13,200 houses. 100,000 homeless. Rebuilt in 10 years. 1136 fire was previously known as Great Fire of London.
Flood, Great. c3000BC. Destruction of man and world by God. Forty days and night. Noah. Gilgamesh.
French Republican Calendar. 1793-1805. 12 30 day months of 3 “decades”. 5-6 holidays at end of year.
General Strike. UK 1926, TUC supports miners for 9 days. Belgium 1893, 1902, for male suffrage. Sweden 1909, vs wage freeze for 1 month.
God’s Truce. 1027-13C. Hostilities suspended on Holy days.
Grey, Lady Jane. 1537-54. English Queen for 9 days, 1553. Executed.
Hesiod. c800BC. Greek poet. Works and Days.
Hostage Crisis. 1979-81. Iranian miltants sieze US Embassy. Hold 52 hostages 444 days.
Jonah. Hebrew prophet who spent three days in the stomach of a whale.
June Days. 1848. Paris workers uprising. Cavaignac’s military rule kills 10,000 to restore order.
Londonderry Siege. 1689. 105 days vs James II forces.
Lubbock, John. English MP. Bank Holidays Act 1871.
Lytton, Bulwer-. 1803-73. English novelist: Last Days of Pompeii 1834. “It was a dark and stormy night”.
Raikes, Robert. 1736-1811. English Sunday School pioneer.
Reed, John. 1887-1920. US communist writer. Ten Days that Shook the World 1919.
Sade, Marquis de. 1740-1814. French S&M writer. Jailed for immorality. 120 Days of Sodom 1785.
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. 1917-. US historian. A Thousand Days 1965.
September Massacres. 1792. Paris. 1200 prisoners killed by revolutionaries in 4 days. French Revolution.
Sunday School. 1580 Milan. 1780 England. 1786 Virginia. Raikes.
Thermopylae. 480BC. Spartans resist Xerxes 3 days before being overwhelmed.
Truce of God. Peace of God. 1027-13C. Fighting on certain days is sacrilegious.
Verne, Jules. 1828-1905. French Science Fiction fantasy writer. Voyage to the Centre of the Earth 864. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870. Round the World in 80 Days 1873.
Wesley, John. 1703-91. English founder of Methodism 1729. Direct preaching, often outdoors, to reach the uneducated working class. Sunday schools.