On the 7th September the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 began when Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay near Land’s End.
3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
3rd May 2017
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.
On the 26th August 1346, one of the most decisive battles in the Hundred Years War was won by the army of the English king Edward III.
On the 25th August 1944, the Nazi German garrison in Paris surrendered the city to the Allies.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on the 21st August 1911.
On the 10th August 1792, French revolutionary troops stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris.
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 Franco-Prussian War began with a declaration of war by the French emperor, Napoleon III.
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017