Ever-When
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What happened on 23 February?

3 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 532 Construction of Hagia Sophia begins Justinian begins the great church of Constantinople.
  2. 1898 Zola convicted and driven into exile For J'Accuse, France's most famous novelist is convicted of criminal libel amid courtroom mobs, and flees to England hours ahead of the sentence. The trial he engineered has done i
  3. 1852 Lord Derby's first premiership The 'Who? Who?' ministry lasts ten months and dies on Disraeli's budget.
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