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In 1825, between Darlington and Stockton in England the first railway line in the world is put into operation.
In 1902, the German-American industrialist, inventor of jeans, Levi Strauss, dies. He made jeans, which for more than a century the most frequently worn piece of clothing.
In 1513, Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pacific or Pacific Ocean. In 1849, in Vienna, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss, who composed numerous marches and polkas, dies.
In 1136, a charter is issued for the establishment of the monastery in Stična, which in the Middle Ages was the religious, cultural and economic centre of the region of Dolenjska.
In 1919, the Slovenian actor Ignacij Borštnik dies. He is one of the first actors with a realistic touch.
In 1791, the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday is born. He discovered electromagnetic induction and the basic law on electrolysis. The unit for electric capacity is named after him.
In 19 bc the Roman poet Vergil dies. He is best known for his national epic, the Aeneid. In 1832 Sir Walter Scott dies. He was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.
In 1519, Fernando Magellan set sail from the port of Seville with five ships. He wanted to go round the world, which he managed with just one ship.
In 1710, the Danish astronomer and mathematician Ole Christensen Romer dies. He made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
In 1709, the creator of the first dictionary of the English language, Samuel Johnson, is born in England.
In 1826, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann is born. Through his work he opened up new trends in mathematics and its application in physics and mechanics.
In 1849, part of the railway Vienna -Trieste from Celje to Ljubljana is opened. Ljubljana railway station at the same time becomes a major freight terminal.
In 1736 in The Hague the German physicist and inventor Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who first set the temperature scale, dies. They are still used today in the UK and the U. S. A.
In 1321, the Italian poet Dante Alighieri dies. His Divine Comedy is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In 1592, the famous French philosopher Michel Montaigne dies. He is recognised as the pioneer of scepticism in French philosophy; his essays have had a major impact on European literature.
In the year 490 BC. on the east coast of Attica near Marathon, the Athenians defeated the ten times stronger army of Darius, the Persian ruler.
In the year 74. BC the Spartacus revolt took place. Spartacus was a Roman soldier, who also became a gladiator after being made a slave.
In 1855, in Blankenburg, German archaeologist Robert Koldewey is born. Between 1899 and 1917 he researched Babylon and proved that this biblical place really existed, and moreover south of Baghdad.
In 1737, in Bologna, the Italian physician and physicist, anatomist Luigi Galvani is born. In 1780, he noticed that the impact of electricity on frogs legs.
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