On the 13th November 1002, the St Brice’s Day Massacre took place when king Æthelred the Unready “ordered slain all the Danish men who were in England”.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
On the 20th September 1066, Harald Hardrada – the Viking king – defeated his northern English enemies at the Battle of Fulford.
Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the ‘Viking’ period of British history.
Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the Holme.
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28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
15th September 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019