On the 25th December 1066, William of Normandy was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact
14th May 2020
The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station.
On the 17th November 1558, Elizabeth I succeeded her half-sister Mary to become queen of England.
On the 13th November 1002, the St Brice’s Day Massacre took place when king Æthelred the Unready “ordered slain all the Danish men who were in England”.
On the 5th November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled when Guy or Guido Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder that had been placed in an undercroft below the House of Lords in London.
Raleigh had been found guilty of treason for his involvement in the Main Plot that sought to depose Elizabeth’s successor James I and replace him with his cousin Arabella Stuart.
On the 18th October 1922, the British Broadcasting Company was established.
On the 14th October 1066, the Battle of Hastings was fought between Duke William II of Normandy and the Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson.
The first recorded naval battle featuring artillery took place in the first naval engagement of the Hundred Years’ War.
Cecil Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, having bought the Neolithic monument at auction.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018