The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in Surrey.
10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa
10th November 2017
On the 12th December 1935, the Lebensborn registered association was established in Nazi Germany by the SS.
On the 4th June 1913, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was hit by King George V’s racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track.
On the 21st May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic when he flew 3,600 miles from New York to Paris.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
On 6 February 1918 the Representation of the People Act received Royal Assent, marking the start of female suffrage in Great Britain.
Theatre in England had been banned by the Puritan Long Parliament in 1642 but, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, the ban was lifted.
Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony.
20th September 1066: Harald Hardrada wins Battle of Fulford
20th September 2019
19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time
19th September 2019
18th September 1931: Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese bomb
18th September 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017
