TWiH: December 18-22, 2023

This week in History

Monday: on December 18, 1603

The first fleet of the Dutch East India Company departed for Southeast Asia. BItH Unit 18, Section 53: East India Companies

Tuesday: on December 19, 1843

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was first published. BItH Unit 19, Section 57: Industrial Revolution

Wednesday: on December 20, 1606

Ships bound for Jamestown, Virginia departed England. BItH Unit 18, Section 52: Colonial Americas

Thursday: on December 21, 1988

Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland when a bomb planted by Libyan terrorists detonated. BItH Unit 30, Section 90: Religious Terrorism

Friday: on December 22, 1216

Order of the Dominicans was approved by papal bull. BItH Unit 21, Section 62: A Mission of Conversion

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