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By the end of 1940 Hitler had authorised the invasion of the USSR, with the intention of securing agricultural land and raw materials, along...
Concerned that the entire fleet might be shared out between the victors as the spoils of war Admiral von Reuter, the German officer in charg...
The Deputies of the French Third Estate swore not to separate until a written constitution had been established for the ...
On 19 June 1846, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club travelled across the Hudson River to play against the New York Nine at Elysian Fields in H...
Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing yo...
The statue arrived disassembled, and remained in its 210 separate crates for 10 months while construction of the enormous pedestal it was to...
The meeting in Old Slaughter’s Coffee House formalised the organisation’s structure and objectives. Early activities included bringing prose...
Magna Carta, which is Latin for ‘the Great Charter’, confirmed the principle that everyone including the king was subject to the law of the...
The Battle of Naseby, a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, was fought between the Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliam...
162 people were killed and over 400 were injured, including at a school in Upper North Street School in Poplar where a bomb struck during sc...
US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbach...
The violence grew to involve around 1,000 people on both sides who also broke into houses and destroyed ...
False Dmitry asserted that he was Dmitry Ivanovich, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible. With support from Polish nobles, mercenaries, and...
The Final Act of the Congress set in place a map of Europe that remained largely unchanged for the next forty years, and which laid the foun...
Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the...
Royal troops entered Grenoble to dissolve the parlement and remove magistrates from the city. Crowds of townspeople gathered in response, an...
The amphibious landings in Normandy are still the largest seaborne invasion ever to be staged, and marked the start of the Allied invasion o...
By the time a final ceasefire was signed on 10 June, Israel’s territorial gains had put around a million Arabs under their control, signalli...
The Brusilov Offensive is regarded as one of the most effective operations of the war in terms of tactical innovation and initial results as...
Official figures reported 241 deaths as a result of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests but unofficial estimates, including one b...