Meanings of historical mistake in English

Platini said it would be an " historical mistake" if technology was introduced.

Why, I wonder, did Keats, in his famous sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," make his historical mistake when he sang-

Peter Hirschberg reports from Jerusalem Prime Minister Mr Ariel Sharon is said to have labelled the 50-page document "the greatest historical mistake since Oslo".

Mr Van Rompuy also tells Today programme chief correspondent Matthew Price that the Leave vote was a " historical mistake" and against the UK's own interests.

I guess we're all pretty inured to Hollywood making historical mistakes on film.

In the latest time 'landscape', scientists are trying to erase historical mistakes that have led to a less than perfect world.

But the whole account of this famous demagogue in Wotton is, it must be owned, full of historical mistakes.]

This is because I cannot stop grinding my teeth with annoyance at major historical mistakes, or harrumphing over errors of period detail.

Although this dissertation was full of historical mistakes and erroneous statements, it made some sensation, as is proved by its four successive editions.