The Greenwich Meridian became the international standard for zero degrees longitude, ensuring continuity with most existing nautical charts.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
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.
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