The writer Thomas Carlyle is credited with giving the conflict its name in his 1858 biography of the Prussian King Friedrich II.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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European and Japanese naval forces fought for the first time at the Battle of Fukuda Bay.
Octavian defeated the combined forces of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium.
Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrendered to British Captain Maitland on board the Royal Navy ship HMS Bellerophon.
The First Barbary War lasted until June 1805, but continuing tensions led to the Second Barbary War in 1815.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland.
Sir Francis Drake entered the Bay of Cádiz and attacked the Spanish naval fleet in an event known as ‘Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard’.
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.
Nuclear propulsion enabled Nautilus to smash numerous records including those for both submerged speed and distance, and became the first submarine to transit the North Pole in August 1958.
Shortly after 8am on the 16th December 1914, the German Imperial Navy attacked the British seaside towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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