Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster Meeting.
17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome
17th December 2020
On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
On the 13th May 1787, the eleven ships of the “First Fleet” set sail under Captain Arthur Phillip from Portsmouth, England, to establish a penal colony in Australia.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.
On the 19th April 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook first caught sight of Australia.
The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers plummet.
The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in Surrey.
The Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in Victoria.
The German fighter pilot Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, was shot down and killed.
18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
18th January 2021
17th January 1991: Gulf War combat begins with Operation Desert Storm
17th January 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