On the 11th January 1923, French and Belgian troops marched into Germany and occupied the industrial Ruhr area.
22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard
22nd November 2017
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.
The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
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.
23rd January 1556: Most destructive earthquake on record in Shaanxi
23rd January 2019
22nd January 1808: Portuguese royal court relocates to Brazil
22nd January 2019
21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason
21st January 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017