1412 The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Moscow 1605 The first edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid 1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Conventionduring the French Revolution 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home Rule for Ireland (but the Great War gets in the way of it happening) 1920 1st assembly of the League of Nations is held in Paris | 
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