On the 17th June 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour on board the French steam ship Isère.
3rd April 1860: The first Pony Express service went into operation
3rd April 2019
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 the 30th May 1431, Joan of Arc was executed by being burned at the stake.
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.
Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I of England, was declared the ‘Lady of England and Normandy’ in advance of a coronation that never took place.
On the 28th March 1871 the Paris Commune was proclaimed and met for the first time.
On the 18th March 1314 Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was executed on the orders of King Philip IV.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017