22 August 1741
Composition of Messiah
Handel began composing Messiah in London and completed the score within approximately twenty-four days.
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Handel began composing Messiah in London and completed the score within approximately twenty-four days.
Death of George Frederick Handel
Influences young Mozart during the family's London stay.
Great powers select Otto of Bavaria as king of the new Greek state
Signs for Prussia in the Great Power treaty guaranteeing the Belgian settlement.
Prussia joins the other Great Powers in guaranteeing the settlement that recognises Belgian independence and permanent neutrality.
Marx and Engels join the Communist League and influence its political programme.
The Communist League commissions Marx and Engels to prepare a political manifesto.
Marx and Engels publish the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Marx arrives in London, where he remains for the rest of his life.
Marx publishes essays interpreting the French upheavals of 1848 through class conflict.
Marx edits a political-economic review analysing the defeated European revolutions.
Appointed Editor of The National Zeitung while in exile in London
Marx and Engels urge the Communist League to maintain independent working-class organisation.
Marx's faction separates from members advocating an immediate new revolutionary uprising.
Marx begins writing regularly for the New-York Daily Tribune.
Marx publishes The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte in a New York periodical.
Publishes a New-York Daily Tribune article analysing the English election and the rivalry between Tories and Whigs.
Publishes a Tribune article examining the Chartist movement in Britain.
Publishes a Tribune article on corruption and bribery in British elections.
Publishes a Tribune analysis of the results and political consequences of the British election.
Publishes a Tribune article discussing Mazzini, Kossuth, Louis Napoleon and European revolutionary politics.
Marx supports dissolving the Communist League after the Cologne communist trial.
Publishes a Tribune article linking pauperism, free trade and the approaching commercial crisis.
Publishes a Tribune article on the political effects of commercial expansion and instability.
Publishes a Tribune article analysing attempts to create a new opposition grouping in British politics.
Publishes a Tribune article assessing British political parties and their immediate prospects.
Publishes a Tribune article on Kossuth, Mazzini and the politics surrounding Louis Napoleon.
Marx writes Tribune articles examining colonial rule and social transformation in India.
Publishes a response to claims made by the secretary of Hungarian revolutionary leader Lajos Kossuth.
Publishes a Tribune article examining the defeat of the British ministry.
Publishes a Tribune article assessing the outgoing administration and prospects for a coalition ministry.
Publishes a Tribune article contrasting commercial prosperity with political uncertainty and cases of severe poverty.
Publishes an article noting an unusual organised strike among agricultural labourers in southern Wiltshire.
Publishes a Tribune article discussing capital punishment, Richard Cobden and Bank of England regulations.
Publishes an article connecting an Italian insurrection with developments in British politics.
Publishes an article discussing forced emigration, political refugees and British electoral corruption.
Publishes an article covering parliamentary inquiry and renewed controversy over the ten-hour working day.
Writes an article analysing strikes, wage demands and the changing industrial situation in Britain.
Marx publishes a series analysing Spanish political history and revolutionary conflict.
Marx speaks about industrial progress, social contradiction and working-class emancipation.
Marx begins extensive economic manuscripts later known collectively as the Grundrisse.
Marx studies historical property systems and social formations preceding capitalism.
Marries Victoria, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria.
Marx publishes Herr Vogt to answer political and personal accusations.
Marx and Engels analyse the American Civil War for European and American newspapers.
Marx begins manuscripts tracing earlier economic theories of surplus value.
Publishes an article examining British political attitudes toward the developing American Civil War.
Publishes an analysis of the causes and political character of the American Civil War.
Publishes a further article analysing military and political developments in the American Civil War.
Publishes an article on the dismissal of Union General John C. Fremont.
Publishes an article analysing the diplomatic crisis created by the Trent affair.
Publishes an article assessing the danger of conflict between Britain and the United States.
Publishes a further analysis of the international controversy surrounding the Trent affair.
Publishes an article examining slavery as the central political issue of the American conflict.
Publishes an article reviewing political and military news from the United States.
Publishes an article examining changing British public opinion toward the American Civil War.
Publishes an article contrasting newspaper positions with wider public opinion on the American crisis.
Publishes an article linking misleading French reports with the economic consequences of war.
Publishes an article on a British public meeting expressing support for the United States.
Publishes an article discussing a suppressed diplomatic dispatch associated with William Seward.
Publishes a Tribune article examining English public opinion toward the United States.
Publishes an account of a London workers' meeting concerning the American Civil War.
Publishes an article examining the British cotton crisis produced by disruption of American supplies.
Publishes an article reviewing political and military developments in the United States.
Publishes an article on British supporters of secession and recognition of the Union blockade.
Publishes an article examining British press reaction to the Union capture of New Orleans.
The Conference of London leads to a ceasefire, which soon breaks down, as as there is not an agreement on territorial oundaries
Seeing that the truce was ending, Austria and Prussia arrived at a new agreement, that the war was to completely separate the duchies from Denmark
The conference in London breaks up without having arrived at any conclusion
Marx participates in founding the International Workingmen's Association.
Marx drafts the association's inaugural address linking political organisation with workers' emancipation.
Marx prepares organisational rules for the International Workingmen's Association.
Drafts an International Workingmen's Association address congratulating Abraham Lincoln on his re-election.
Helps formulate a resolution governing admission of organisations to the International Workingmen's Association.
Writes to J. B. Schweitzer assessing Proudhon's ideas and political significance.
Drafts resolutions for the International's Central Council concerning conflict in its Paris section.
Publishes a statement explaining the causes of the break with the German newspaper Social-Demokrat.
Publishes The President of Mankind during his political work for the First International.
Drafts an International address to United States President Andrew Johnson after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Marx presents an explanation of wages, value and profit to the International's General Council.
Drafts a resolution calling for a general congress of the International Workingmen's Association in 1866.
Participates in the London Conference of the International and its organisational deliberations.
Drafts a resolution on procedures for discussing the International's congress programme.
Issues A Warning in connection with organisational disputes inside the International Workingmen's Association.
Drafts a resolution defining the programme for the International's Geneva Congress.
Prepares instructions for International delegates on major questions to be considered at the Geneva Congress.
Luxemburg becomes neutral & demilitarized, under the protection of the European powers
Luxemburg becomes neutral & demilitarized, under the protection of the European powers
Addresses a London meeting supporting Poland and links national liberation with wider democratic struggle.
Drafts resolutions on the agenda for the International Workingmen's Association congress at Lausanne.
Drafts a resolution defining the International's attitude toward the League of Peace and Freedom.
Drafts an International resolution concerning Fenian prisoners and events in Manchester.
Helps define the International's position on Prussian protectionist tariff policy.
Participates in a General Council resolution changing the venue of the International's 1868 congress.
Participates in a General Council resolution responding to Felix Pyat's conduct.
Helps issue an International declaration concerning British government policy toward Tsarist Russia.
Helps prepare a Brussels Congress resolution on the consequences of machinery under capitalism.
Helps prepare a resolution advocating reduction of the working day for the Brussels Congress.
Prepares the Fourth Annual Report of the General Council of the International.
Writes on relations between the International and the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy.
Helps prepare a summary of General Council meetings for publication in The Bee-Hive.
Helps issue an International address to European and American workers condemning violence in Belgium.
Drafts an address from the International to the National Labor Union in the United States.
Prepares the General Council report on the right of inheritance for the International.
Writes on British government policy toward imprisoned Irish Fenians.
Writes a confidential communication analysing Bakunin's political activity and disputes inside the International.
Drafts the International's first address on the Franco-Prussian War.
Drafts the International's second address after the fall of Napoleon III and proclamation of the French Republic.
Speaks at an International banquet on the political significance of the Paris Commune.
Helps formulate the International's resolution affirming the importance of independent working-class political action.
Marx publishes an address defending the Paris Commune and assessing its historical significance.
Completes with Engels a private circular answering factional attacks and preparing for confrontation with Bakunin's supporters.
Publishes an article arguing for nationalisation of land as part of a broader social transformation.
Publishes Political Indifferentism, criticizing anarchist arguments against working-class political action.
Marx writes critical marginal notes on the proposed programme of German social democracy.
Publishes A Workers' Inquiry, a questionnaire designed to collect detailed information about workers' labour and living conditions.
Writes to Vera Zasulich discussing the Russian rural commune and possible paths of social development.
Marx's wife Jenny dies after decades of political exile and collaboration.
Karl Marx dies at his London home, aged sixty-four.
Appointed Consul General to London
Reports strong British opposition to Germany's Agadir policy.
Warns Berlin that the crisis is worsening relations with Britain.
Sent to London by the German Chancellor to sound out the British reaction to war. Reports that if France is attacked Britain will intervene
Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society report eclipse results supporting Einstein's general relativity.
Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
His government confronts French demands for productive pledges during Allied discussions on Germany's reparations position.
Gets agreement for speedier Allied withdrawal from the Rhineland
Awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal for relativity and contributions to quantum theory.
Stresemann signs the Locarno agreements in London at the formal ceremony on 1 December 1925.
The Locarno agreements are formally signed in London.
Receives the Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal for relativity and the theory of gravitation.
Appointed Ambassador of Britain
Appointed Ambassador of Britain
The League Council finds that Germany has violated its treaty obligations by remilitarizing the Rhineland.
A Non-intervention committee is held in London, Italy & Germany ignore it
Sends an emissary but fails to gain support against Germany if Hitler invades Czech
Concentrates on airfields in the south east but bombs are dropped in error on London. 2nd phase to 27th Sept, a route to London is to be opened up by destroying the RAF
Bombs also fall on London during the continuing air offensive.
Luftwaffe operations intensify against Fighter Command targets around London.
Concentrates on airfields in the south east but bombs are dropped in error on London
London is bombed, marking the beginning of the London blitz
London becomes the target for incessant bombing
Shifts the main Luftwaffe effort toward large-scale attacks on London.
The change reduces pressure on Fighter Command's sector stations.
The Germans begin their 1st large scale bombing of London
Fighter Command concentrates its dwindling force after Goerings change of strategy
The Luftwaffe diverts forces from destroying the RAF to bombing London
Bombing on London peaks. Believing the RAF is broken Goering bombs London, 1,300 sorties are flown. 56 German planes are downed compared with 26 British. 1,000 bombers & 700 fighters rage over the London
Believing the RAF is broken Goering bombs London, 1,300 sorties are flown
The Luftwaffe use 1,000 bombers to bomb London
The Luftwaffe use 1,000 bombers to bomb London
Death of Leo Baeck
Scores a late equalizer to take the World Cup final into extra time.
Scores West Germany's opening goal in the World Cup final.
Death of Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer
Represents Germany as leaders discuss the Community budget, agriculture and renewed European integration.
Guides Bayern to European glory during a season that ends with a continental treble.
Scores after twelve seconds against Manchester United, the fastest goal in FA Cup final history.
Wins his sixth European Cup, five with Real Madrid, in his final club match.
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