The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers from the First World War in the area around the Ypres Salient, and features more than 54,000 names.
The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
On the 24th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of Ypres.
Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life’.
The Treaty of London was signed, which recognised and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of Belgium.
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.
British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World War.
On the 22nd April 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres began in Belgium.
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.
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