On the 22nd April 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres began in Belgium.
10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures
10th December 2017
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.
On the 26th February 1815, Napoléon Bonaparte escaped exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba and sailed to the French mainland.
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.
On the 21st January 1793, former French King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine at the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017