2018:

Parisians are horrified by novel public urinals.

1855:

Boston considers following in Paris’ footsteps and introducing public urinals.

2018:

Two thieves pull off a heist of royal jewels from a holy place.

1671:

A vengeful thief goes after royal jewels kept in a hellish place.

2018:

New York politicians blame short-term rentals for rising rents.

1853:

Nineteenth-century journalists are skeptical about the whole idea of short-term rentals.

2018:

A twelve-year-old steals his parents’ credit card and gets on a plane to Bali.

1723:

Seventeen-year-old Ben Franklin runs away on a boat and ends up in Philadelphia.

2018:

The body of a poet is found in a sunless cellar.

1674:

The young royals wronged by Richard III are found under a staircase.

2018:

Two Spanish queens go viral for trading harsh—and unknown—words at church.

c. 1560:

A fight between two queens is saved for posterity.

2018:

Trump humiliates underlings with firings; the media reports metaphoric “stays of execution.”

c. 40:

Caligula condemns underlings to fight wild beasts after they fail to acknowledge his genius.

2018:

Facebook disappears an ad featuring a woman’s—gasp—upper back.

1880:

Mark Twain has opinions about Titian’s depiction of Venus.