Sedition

Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

Fact of the Day

The average temperature inside a 1916 First World War tank was 51°C.

"What recreation tooke I? How lawfull was it? ... Was it not affected with too much delight? "

~ Questions from the seventeenth-century puritan guidebook for women, 'A Fountaine of Tears'

1868 William Gladstone became prime minister for the first time

1926 Novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared. She was found 11 days later using a pseudonym at a Harrogate hotel.

1944 The Greek government, backed by the British, fired on a left-wing rally, killing 28. The ensuing battle lasted 33 days.

1973 US probe Pioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

1976 Reggae superstar Bob Marley was shot twice during an assassination attempt at his home.

1984 More than 3,800 people were killed after a cloud of poisonous gas escaped from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India.

1992 Two IRA bombs exploded in Manchester. No-one was killed but much of the city centre had to be rebuilt.