The Greenwich Meridian became the international standard for zero degrees longitude, ensuring continuity with most existing nautical charts.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 2018
On the 5th February 1924 the BBC ‘pips’ were broadcast for the first time.
Prior to the adoption of universally accepted time zones, the vast majority of settlements around the world observed local mean solar time.
Known as the Orloj, the astronomical clock was designed and built by the Imperial clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Charles University professor Jan Šindel.
On the 4th October 1582, Pope Gregory XIII implemented the Gregorian calendar.
The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, most famously used by the Maya civilisation, began.
26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp
26th October 2020
25th October 1415: The Battle of Agincourt is fought
25th October 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