Napoleon granted a patent for the Pyréolophore to Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude.
21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)
21st January 2018
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.
Napoleon’s Grande Armée began its failed invasion of Russia when it crossed the Neman River in what Russians refer to as the Patriotic War of 1812.
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 26th February 1815, Napoléon Bonaparte escaped exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba and sailed to the French mainland.
The Portuguese royal family and more than 10,000 courtiers relocated to Brazil to escape the advancing Napoleonic forces.
On the 2nd December 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
On the 2nd November 1795, the Directory was established in France.
On the 21st October 1805, the British navy under the command of Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson defeated the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies.
Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrendered to British Captain Maitland on board the Royal Navy ship HMS Bellerophon.
14th October 1066: Battle of Hastings fought on Senlac Hill
14th October 2019
13th October 1792: Cornerstone laid for the White House
13th October 2019
12th October 1810: First Oktoberfest held in Munich
12th October 2019
11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time
11th October 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017