Octavian defeated the combined forces of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium.
3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
3rd May 2017
On the 7th August 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed by the United States Congress.
Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrendered to British Captain Maitland on board the Royal Navy ship HMS Bellerophon.
British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
The German gunboat SMS Panther was sent to the Moroccan port of Agadir, sparking the Second Moroccan Crisis.
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.
23-year old Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty.
The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017