On the 18th June 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
9th November 1918: Wilhelm II abdicates as Kaiser of Germany
9th November 2018
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.
On the 22nd October 1895, the Granville–Paris Express train ran across the station platform, crashed through a 60cm wall, and fell 10 metres to the street below after it overran the buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse terminus.
The Louvre museum in Paris opened to the public in the former palace of the French royal family.
On the 1st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.
21st September 1937: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is first published
21st September 2020
19th September 1970: The First Glastonbury Festival takes place in Somerset
19th September 2020
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