The bell has chimed the hours almost non-stop since it first rang in July 1859, over a year after the bell itself was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Prior to the adoption of universally accepted time zones, the vast majority of settlements around the world observed local mean solar time.
By the 16th Century a sizable drift had developed between the Julian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the real moon which the new calendar sought to resolve.
Although now largely inaccurate as a result of the inherent delay in the encoding, transmission, and decoding of digital radio broadcasts, the Greenwich Time Signal pips are still a part of many BBC radio programmes.
Known as the Orloj, the astronomical clock was designed and built by the Imperial clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Charles University professor Jan Šindel.
The Greenwich Meridian became the international standard for zero degrees longitude, ensuring continuity with most existing nautical charts.
On the 5th February 1924 the BBC ‘pips’ were broadcast for the first time.
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.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019