On the 18th January 1871, Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed the first German Emperor.
20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France
20th July 2019
The Battle of Monte Cassino began when Allied forces launched the first of four attacks against the Gustav Line in Italy.
On the 14th January 1943, the Casablanca Conference began in Morocco.
On the 8th January 1918, United States President Woodrow Wilson made a speech to Congress in which he outlined his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen Points.
The first aerial crossing of the English Channel was conducted by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries in a gas-filled balloon.
The origin for the scandal lay in the discovery of a ripped-up letter in a waste basket at the German Embassy in Paris.
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed record.
It is estimated that up to a quarter of a million different units of measurement were in use throughout France at eve of the Revolution in 1789, and that these differed not only from trade to trade but also from town to town.
On the 3rd December 1910, the first neon light went on show at the Paris Motor Show.
On the 15th November 1917, Georges Clemenceau was appointed Prime Minister of France for the second time.
24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard
24th January 2020
22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg
22nd January 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018