The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact crashed into a wheat field outside the Alsatian town of Ensisheim.
12th April 1917: The Canadian Corps successfully capture Vimy Ridge
12th April 2020
King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to Varennes.
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 27th April 1509, Pope Julius II excommunicated the entire republic of Venice.
On 30 November 1786 Leopold formally abolished the death sentence as well as banning the use of torture.
Two Catholic imperial officials and their secretary were thrown out of the window of the Bohemian Chancellery in the Second Defenestration of Prague.
Maria Theresa inherited the Austrian throne, prompting the War of the Austrian Succession.
4th December 1956: Million Dollar Quartet record at Sun Studios
4th December 2020
2nd December 1804: Napoleon crowns himelf Emperor of the French
2nd December 2020
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