British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper
11th March 2019
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.
On the 31st July 1970, the British Royal Navy issued the last daily rum ration, or “tot”, to sailors.
On the 21st June 1919, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the scuttling of the German High Seas naval fleet in Scapa Flow, a large natural harbor in the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
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