On the 17th June 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour on board the French steam ship Isère.
1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation
1st February 2021
The ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna was signed on the 9th June 1815, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
On May 12th 1949, the Soviet Union ended its blockade of West Berlin.
France agreed to sell 828,000 square miles of territory that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and which doubled the size of the United States.
On the 22nd April 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres began in Belgium.
On 8th April 1904, a series of agreements between Britain and France known as the Entente Cordiale were signed.
On the 24th February 1848, amidst the revolutions that were beginning to sweep across the continent, King Louis Philippe of France abdicated the throne.
On the 12th February 1429, the curiously-named Battle of the Herrings was fought between French and English forces near the village of Rouvray in France.
Charles VI of France danced in the Bal des Ardents in which four people died after their costumes caught fire.
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World War.
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