The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world
6th September 2018
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war.
10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
10th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents
28th January 2021
27th January 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau liberated by Soviet forces
27th January 2021
25th January 1890: Nellie Bly circumnavigates the world in 72 days
25th January 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