USS Constitution earned the nickname ‘Old Ironsides’ after defeating HMS Guerriere in the War of 1812.
2nd September 31 BCE: Marc Antony and Cleopatra defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium
2nd September 2018
On the 7th August 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed by the United States Congress.
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.
The first recorded naval battle featuring artillery took place in the first naval engagement of the Hundred Years’ War.
30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt
30th September 2020
27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit
27th September 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