On the 4th August 1693, legend says that French Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon invented champagne.
3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
3rd October 2017
On the 30th July 1792, a group of volunteer soldiers from the city of Marseille were the first to introduce and sing “La Marseillaise” in Paris.
Napoleon granted a patent for the Pyréolophore to Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude.
On the 19th July 1799, an announcement was made of the discovery of a slab of rock covered in carvings by French Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard in the area around Fort Julien near the Egyptian town of Rashid or, as it also known, Rosetta.
The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place on July 11th 1962 when the Telstar satellite relayed an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.
The Vichy government was established in France after the National Assembly approved a new French Constitutional Law that granted full powers to Marshal Pétain.
On the 1st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.
On the 17th June 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour on board the French steam ship Isère.
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.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017