Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published
22nd September 2020
The Stone of Scone was found on the site of the High Altar at Arbroath Abbey, nearly four months after it disappeared from Westminster Abbey.
The Great Smog of London descended on the British capital due to a combination of air pollution and weather conditions.
Englishman Theodore Hook orchestrated a practical joke known as the Berners Street hoax in the heart of London.
The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.
On the 31st August 1888, Mary Ann Nichols – commonly known as Polly – became the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel area of London.
The English writer Daniel Defoe was put in the pillory for seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet.
RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when he ‘tipped’ a Nazi German V-1 ‘doodlebug’ flying bomb with his Gloster Meteor jet fighter.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
4th August 221: The death of Lady Zhen of the Three Kingdoms
4th August 2018
28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents
28th January 2021
24th February 1848: King Louis Philippe of France abdicates
24th February 2021
22nd February 1943: Trial and execution of White Rose members
22nd February 2021
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