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On 12 April 1204, Crusaders breached the walls of Constantinople. They had set out to free Jerusalem. They ended up sacking the greatest Christian city in the world - and dismantling the one barrier standing between Europe and the Ottoman advance.
On 25th March 1821, Bishop Germanos of Patras is said to have raised the flag of revolution at the Monastery of Agia Lavra. The revolt had already started. The date was chosen deliberately, and that was exactly the point.
On 19 January 1629, Shah Abbas I died after forty-one years on the Safavid throne. He rebuilt a collapsing state into a military and commercial power, then crippled its future by destroying his own line of succession.