To the ship’s crew the voyage to the New World was just a delivery contract between the Pilgrims and the ship’s master, Christopher Jones.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
On the 28th February 1525 Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor, was executed on the orders of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
On the 25th September 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first European to successfully lead an expedition to the Pacific Ocean from the New World.
Christopher Columbus used knowledge of a forthcoming lunar eclipse to fool Jamaican natives into providing his stranded crew with provisions.
On the 23rd October 1739 England declared war on Spain in what became known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018