The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III, banning settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 2018
Ishi, believed to be the last surviving member of the indigenous Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in California.
Improved fencing systems were vital to the farmers who had headed west to settle in the Great Plains.
The Occupation of Alcatraz was launched by a group of 89 members of the Indians of All Tribes in an attempt to gain control under the Treaty of Fort Laramie that had been signed in 1868.
On the 25th June 1876, the Battle of Little Bighorn began when American Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led federal troops against the combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Plains Indians.
More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp
26th October 2020
25th October 1415: The Battle of Agincourt is fought
25th 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