The first professional archaeological excavation began in the Qumran Caves, the location of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
28th June 1880: Australian outlaw Ned Kelly arrested following a violent shoot out
28th June 2017
Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the Papacy.
The first of the Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the Plymouth Colony.
The Saturnalia festival was dedicated to Roman god, Saturn.
On the 24th November 1859, English naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the ground-breaking book that is considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of England.
On the 31st October 1517, the foundations of the Protestant Reformation were laid when Martin Luther reputedly nailed his ‘Ninety-five Theses’ to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg – a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite families.
On the 18th August 1612, the trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches began.
18th February 1930: Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly
18th February 2019
17th February 1864: An enemy ship sunk by submarine for the first time
17th February 2019
16th February 1923: Howard Carter unseals Tutankhamun’s burial chamber
16th February 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