The Peasants’ Revolt was triggered when John Bampton arrived in Essex to investigate non-payment of the poll tax.
5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris
5th June 2020
On the 27th March 1963, Chairman of the British Transport Commission Dr Richard Beeching published his report entitled The Reshaping of British Railways.
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.
By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.
The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to late-1990s.
On the 15th February 1971, the United Kingdom and Ireland abandoned their old currency of pounds, shillings and pence and introduced a decimalised system.
France and the United States signed the first two treaties ever negotiated by the American government, and which formally recognised the independence of the United States.
The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.
The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
The British government had passed the Tea Act seven months earlier on 10 May, partly in an attempt to support the struggling East India Company.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018