Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the Holme.
10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures
10th December 2017
The Great Smog of London descended on the British capital due to a combination of air pollution and weather conditions.
Englishman Theodore Hook orchestrated a practical joke known as the Berners Street hoax in the heart of London.
On the 26th November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.
The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of England.
On the 25th October 1415, the English king Henry V celebrated a major victory in the Hundred Years War when he defeated the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt.
On the 23rd October 1739 England declared war on Spain in what became known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
On the 21st October 1805, the British navy under the command of Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson defeated the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies.
On the 17th October 1814 eight people were killed when nearly one and a half million litres of beer swept out of London’s Horse Shoe Brewery and formed an alcoholic tidal wave that swept down Tottenham Court Road.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017