On the 17th November 1558, Elizabeth I succeeded her half-sister Mary to become queen of England.
30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris
30th March 2018
The Battle of Naseby, a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, was fought between the Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model Army.
On the 7th June 1628, the Petition of Right was approved by King Charles I.
On the 10th April 1858 Big Ben – the bell inside the clocktower at the Palace of Westminster in Britain – was cast.
On the 4th January 1642, Charles I attempted and failed to arrest the Five Members of Parliament, prompting the English Civil War and his own eventual execution for treason.
William Pitt the Younger became the youngest ever Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of England.
On the 19th August 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union, was placed under house arrest in what is known as the August Coup.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018