The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
16th October 2020
On the 2nd December 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of Compiègne.
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 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
On the 27th August 1928, Germany, France and the United States signed the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy – otherwise known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on the 21st August 1911.
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
On the 24th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of Ypres.
The Battle of Castillon, considered to be the last battle of the Hundred Years’ War, was fought between France and England.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019