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Dates That Made History
Season 3 · Episode 3
1816 - Frankenstein
0.027mDecember 14, 2025
Frankenstein's creature, born from Mary Shelley's imagination during the summer of 1816 on the shores of Lake Geneva, embodies our fear of uncontrolled scientific progress leading to the dehumanization of the world and of life. How can a founding myth of modernity remain relevant?
Episodes
- Episode 1International Workers' Day
- Episode 2212 - Constitutio Antoniniana
- Episode 31816 - Frankenstein
- Episode 41521 - The Conquest of Tenochtitlán
- Episode 5June 30, 1936 - Haile Selassie's Speech before the League of Nations
- Episode 61720 - Europe's First Financial Crisis
- Episode 7October 14, 1066 - Battle of Hastings
- Episode 81143 - The Translation of the Quran
- Episode 9The Flood
- Episode 101648 - The Peace of Westphalia
- Episode 11June 1, 1310 - Marguerite Porete dies at the stake
- Episode 12January 1, 1804 - Haiti's Independence
- Episode 13800 - The Coronation of Charlemagne
- Episode 14September 24, 1877 - The Battle of Shiroyama
- Episode 15221 BC - Founding of the Chinese Empire