The Treaty of London was signed, which recognised and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of Belgium.
3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
3rd October 2017
On the 22nd March 1621, Dutch legal scholar Hugo Grotius – also known as Hugo de Groot – escaped imprisonment in Loevestein Castle concealed inside a book chest.
On the 12th June 1942, Anne Frank received a diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father.
On the 25th March 1957 the Treaty of Rome, which laid the foundations for the European Economic Community, was signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany.
By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.
In the medieval period the Netherlands, whose name literally means ‘lower countries’, consisted of large areas of boggy land around the winding estuaries of three of the largest rivers in Europe.
On the 29th November 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong threw the first of at least 132 African slaves overboard in a massacre intended to allow them to cash in their insurance policy.
21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA
21st August 2019
20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico
20th August 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017