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Thursday, 7 August 2014

Difference between "Historic" and "Historical"

Historic is an adjective whose meaning is "Having importance in or influence on history"
Historical means “From the past or anything related to history.”

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>>This is a historical event. (one that happened in the past)


>>The jury cannot take historical convictions into consideration(Jury did not consider the convictions related to past)
 

>>This is a historic event.
(one that is important in history, e.g., the Moon landing)
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>>In a historic vote, the Church of England decided to allow women to become priests.
(Allowing the women is an important decision which has impact on history)
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