The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France
26th August 2019
Gibbon’s six volume history traces the collapse of the Roman Empire from the rule of the Five Good Emperors until the end of Byzantium.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019