Parthenon Shelled
September 26, 1687
A Venetian mortar fired into the Acropolis of Athens, which the Ottomans were using as a gunpowder magazine, scored a direct hit on the Parthenon. The explosion destroyed the middle section of a temple that had stood for two thousand years. Europe had just discovered the archaeological cost of warfare.
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Also in 1687 (3 other events on record)
- Newton Publishes Principia · Europe · Science
- Battle of Mohacs · Europe · War
- Acqua Alta in Venice · Europe · Science
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.