The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation
1st February 2021
On the 16th February 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The 24th August AD 79 is traditionally believed to have been the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed was discovered by palaeontologist Susan Hendrickson.
On the 17th May 1902, an ancient analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism was first identified by Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais.
Cecil Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, having bought the Neolithic monument at auction.
Often referred to as the ‘lost city of the Incas’, Machu Picchu was constructed in the middle of the 15th century but was abandoned barely a century later in 1572.
On the 21st July 1970, construction was completed on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
On the 19th July 1799, an announcement was made of the discovery of a slab of rock covered in carvings by French Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard in the area around Fort Julien near the Egyptian town of Rashid or, as it also known, Rosetta.
The first professional archaeological excavation began in the Qumran Caves, the location of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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