Historical place archive

Reading in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Reading in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1895–1895

Historical events in Reading

1895

25 March 1895
Arrest of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde · Literature

Sentenced to 2 yrs hard Labour for homosexuality

Provenance

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