Daily history quiz
Can you place the stories they never taught you?
Ten true stories from the archive, every one drawn from published sources. Your job: guess when each happened. New set every day.
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The Contractor Who Sold the Bastille to All of France
For three days after the fall of the Bastille, the man still cleaning its cells had no idea anything had changed.
When did this happen?