Chronologia: History by the Minute

“At what time was Guy Fawkes discovered underneath the Palace of Westminster? At what time was Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved? What time was on the clock when the Titanic sunk? When was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?” These four questions appear amongst the promotional blurb on the back cover of this book and are presumably designed to indicate its content and possible use. The answers, in case you were wondering, are 12.00 am, 2.17 pm, 11.40 pm and 12.30 pm, respectively. Quite why anyone would want or need to know to the exact hour or minute when these events...