Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
On the 13th March 1881, Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement.
On the 22nd January 1905, the Bloody Sunday massacre took place in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg.
In 1703 Peter’s forces captured Swedish possessions at the mouth of the Neva river, and it was here that he laid the foundation stone for the Peter and Paul Fortress on Zayachy Island.
The Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, began.
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
10th April 2021
8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale
8th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019