Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I of England, was declared the ‘Lady of England and Normandy’ in advance of a coronation that never took place.
6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA
6th November 2017
William, duke of Normandy, landed in England to begin the Norman Conquest.
The 6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion in history, when the Allied forces of the Second World War launched Operation Neptune – more commonly known as the D-Day landings.
On the 6th January 1066, Harold Godwinson was crowned king of England.
A succession crisis was sparked following the death of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
On the 25th December 1066, William of Normandy was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
On the 14th October 1066, the Battle of Hastings was fought between Duke William II of Normandy and the Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson.
13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David
13th September 2019
12th September 1919: Hitler joins the German Workers Party
12th September 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
