The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 2018
On the 29th May 1453 the troops of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II successfully took control of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
On the 17th May 1902, an ancient analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism was first identified by Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais.
On the 6th April 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.
The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedely posts his 95 Theses
31st October 2020
30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR
30th October 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018