The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris
5th June 2020
On the 25th March 1957 the Treaty of Rome, which laid the foundations for the European Economic Community, was signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany.
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
On the 26th September 1923, German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann ended passive resistance in the Ruhr and resumed the payment of First World War reparations.
On the 22nd April 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres began in Belgium.
The Treaty of London was signed, which recognised and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of Belgium.
On the 11th January 1923, French and Belgian troops marched into Germany and occupied the industrial Ruhr area.
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World War.
On the 24th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of Ypres.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018