On the 28th March 1871 the Paris Commune was proclaimed and met for the first time.
10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures
10th December 2017
On the 21st January 1793, former French King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine at the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
On the 25th August 1944, the Nazi German garrison in Paris surrendered the city to the Allies.
On the 18th June 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
The Crimean War began in October 1853, having been triggered by disagreements between Russia and the Ottoman Empire regarding Russia’s right to protect the Orthodox Christian minority in the Ottoman-controlled Holy Land.
Put on for an audience of 200 invited attendees at the “Society for the Development of the National Industry”, the reaction to the moving black-and-white pictures caught the brothers by surprise.
Chappe was born into a wealthy family in 1763 and originally trained as a member of the church.
On the 8th January 1918, United States President Woodrow Wilson made a speech to Congress in which he outlined his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen Points.
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed record.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017