King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to Varennes.
5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris
5th June 2020
On the 20th June 1789 at Versailles in France, the National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath in which they vowed not to separate until a written constitution had been established for the country.
On June 16th 1958, Hungarian Communist politician Imre Nagy was executed.
The Arab Revolt began fully on June 10th 1916 when Grand Sharif Hussein bin Ali, the guardian of the holy city of Mecca, ordered his troops to attack the Ottoman Caliphate’s garrison in the city.
On the 7th May 1794, just a few weeks before the Law of 22nd Prairial that created the Great Terror, Maximilien Robespierre formally announced the creation of the Cult of the Supreme Being in a meeting of the National Convention.
The 25th April 1792 saw the world’s first use of the guillotine as a method of execution.
Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
On the 11th February 1979 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, was overthrown as a result of the Iranian Revolution.
On the 22nd January 1905, the Bloody Sunday massacre took place in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg.
On the 7th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik Revolution.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018