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Memory of the World Register
- SmallpoxOn the 26th of October 1977, a hospital cook named Ali Maow Maalin fell ill in Merca, Somalia. His was the last naturally occurring case of indigenous…
- A Doll's HouseIn 1878, a woman named Laura Kieler wrote to the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. She asked him for help with a financial scandal that threatened her…
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumA physician's library list from 1514 mentions a manuscript matching the description of Nicolaus Copernicus's early work.
- Bibliotheca CorvinianaMatthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, began collecting books around 1460. He ruled from 1458 until his death in 1490. This monarch was one of the most powerful…
- RigvedaScholars place the bulk of the Rigveda's composition between 1500 and 1000 BCE. This timeframe situates the text in the late Bronze Age, a period marked by…
- Baltic WayOn the 23rd of August 1939, a secret agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.
- Tabula PeutingerianaThe Tabula Peutingeriana is a parchment copy dating from around 1200. It preserves the layout of an ancient Roman road map known as the cursus publicus.
- Derveni papyrusOn the 15th of January 1962, archaeologists Petros Themelis and Maria Siganidou stood in a nobleman's grave near Derveni.
- International Committee on Intellectual CooperationThe International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation opened its first session on the 1st of August 1922 in Geneva. Henri Bergson presided over a group…
- Astrid LindgrenOn the 14th of November 1907, Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren entered the world in Näs, a small village near Vimmerby in Småland.