Decisions that changed the world

Experts name moments that made history

1914:

Assassin Gavrilo Princip happened to be in the Sarajevo street and the heir to the Austrohungarian empire was killed... igniting the First World War. of the telephone, and exited the phone business. 1944:

Decision to put his faith in his weather forecasters was rewarded. 31 BC: Margaret gave birth to a son who would be crowned Henry VII.

9th Century:

Discovered by Chinese alchemists attempting to create a substance that offered immortality. Dissolution of the Monasteries. The monks and nuns could no longer look after the poor. That created more vagrancy and can be seen as the roots of the Poor Law Acts, the workhouse system and the Welfare State.

Fisher Act raised school leaving age to 14 and made provision for tertiary education, school welfare and centres for pupils with special needs.

5th century:

To deal with aggression from the Picts and Scots, the Briton king turned to Saxony. But they gained the upper hand and more than 500 years of Anglo-saxon rule ensued. 1860/1:

Objecting to anti-slavery president Abraham Lincoln, they fought a four-year civil war against the North. AD 664:

The Northumberland king opted for Roman christianity over the Irish Celtic version – central was the calculation of when Easter was.

1778:

It led to his death – and the beginning of Tudor England.

1635:

Designed to extinguish foreign influence. Isolationism kept Japan off the world stage for more than 200 years. 1833:

Move abolished slavery across the British Empire.

1859:

Provoked backlash from the religious community but was the moment science stood on its own two feet. 1940:

GIANT LEAP Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon DOOMED German troops during invasion of Russia TAKING OFF Wright Brothers’ first flight FAB FOUR The Beatles at Decca audition

BRAVE Pilgrims settle in America

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