On the 21st September 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit was first published in the United Kingdom.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
On the 6th January 1066, Harold Godwinson was crowned king of England.
A succession crisis was sparked following the death of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
On the 25th December 1066, William of Normandy was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
On the 13th November 1002, the St Brice’s Day Massacre took place when king Æthelred the Unready “ordered slain all the Danish men who were in England”.
On the 14th October 1066, the Battle of Hastings was fought between Duke William II of Normandy and the Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson.
Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the ‘Viking’ period of British history.
Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the Holme.
July 12th 927 is the closest we have to a foundation date for England, when all the kings of Britain met at Eamont Bridge, near Penrith in Cumbria, to swear an oath of peace under the overlordship of Æthelstan.
12th April 1945: Harry Truman becomes president of the USA
12th April 2021
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
10th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019