The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The troops of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II successfully took control of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
The Turkish War of Independence began when General Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Inspector of the Ottoman 9th Army and later known as Atatürk, arrived at the town of Samsun on the Black Sea Coast.
Hagia Sophia’s long history saw it serve as both a Greek Orthodox cathedral and a Roman Catholic cathedral, before Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II in 1453.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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