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This was the first time Buffalo Bill had travelled to Britain, and also marked the first time that many Europeans had seen the fabled ‘Cowbo...
A major engagement on 7 May resulted in the capture of the English stronghold known as Les Tourelles and, the following day, English forces...
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of ...
The landing ropes were dropped at 7.21pm, and shortly afterwards the Hindenburg was engulfed by ...
Despite expectations of a rapid French victory in the Battle of Puebla, the Mexican troops repelled repeated attacks aided by the terrain an...
Capone was found guilty on 17 October 1931 of Federal Income Tax Evasion and was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment by Judge James Herbe...
Built by George and Robert Stevenson in Newcastle, and transported to Whitstable by sea, Invicta was the first steam locomotive to haul pass...
Acting on orders authorised by the Strategic Command, HMS Conqueror fired torpedoes at the Belgrano, killing over 200 crewmembers and causin...
The day before Mr Potato Head was released by Hasbro he featured in the first ever television advert for a toy that was aimed directly at .....
A boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company in England was launched due to their racist employment ...
The jury in the trial of four police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King acquitted the defendants, prompting protests that soon e...
Official figures placed attendance at 126,000 people – 1,000 more than the stadium’s capacity – but estimates suggest that the crowd was pro...
The Russian Empire’s State Duma met for the first time at the Taurida Palace in St. ...
As president, Hindenburg possessed significant constitutional powers, including the authority to appoint governments and, under certain cond...
The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian ...
Despite all the odds stacked against them, the crew of the tiny boat reached South Georgia in 16 days and then crossed to the whaling statio...
The video of co-founder Jawed Karim shows him speaking in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California, and...
Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle aroun...
The German fighter pilot Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, was shot down and ...
Powell argued that continued immigration would create social tension in Britain, illustrating his argument with a quotation from the Roman p...
The Treaty of London was signed, which recognised and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of ...
Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred ...
The Peak District was selected as the first area to receive this status because of its landscape and its proximity to large populations cove...
The Treaty of Rapallo meant the two countries ended all territorial and financial arguments stemming from the previous Treaty of Brest-Litov...
Johnson’s finished dictionary contained 42,773 words, each of which featured a number of notes on their specific ...
The Stresa Front consisted of a formal declaration opposing unilateral changes to European treaties and the intention to resist further viol...
Troops from the British Indian Army committed the Amritsar Massacre when they opened fire on nonviolent protesters and pilgrims at Jallianwa...
Truman faced an enormous challenge simply by being the person to follow Roosevelt as President, let alone the ongoing struggles of the Secon...
Idi Amin seized power in a coup while the president, Milton Obote, was attending a meeting abroad. He suspended parts of the constitution an...
The bell has chimed the hours almost non-stop since it first rang in July 1859, over a year after the bell itself was cast at the Whitechape...
John Hancock, one of Boston’s wealthiest merchants and a leading figure in Boston politics, forcibly removed customs officials from his ship...
The sculpture, believed to represent the goddess Aphrodite, was was uncovered by a farmer named Yorgos Kentrotas near the remains of an anci...
The belief was that God would intervene to protect Savonarola from the flames, but he and his opponents squabbled for so long that a rainsto...
The 1896 Summer Olympics laid down many traditions including the first competitive marathon ...
The blast, which was broadcast live on television, broke apart the submerged peaks of the Ripple Rock underwater mountain, sending 635,000 m...
King was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis when he was hit by a single bullet that shattered his jaw...
The first Pony Express service left the American city of St Joseph in Missouri destined for Sacramento in ...
The release of 2001: A Space Odyssey marked an important moment in the development of cinematic science fiction, combining large-scale visua...
Hitler’s detention provided him with the opportunity to write Mein Kampf, his blueprint for power, and to rethink the tactics he would use t...
The Kaiser’s speech in Tangier was a direct challenge to the French Foreign Minister, Théophile Delcassé, who had previously secured wide Eu...
One bullet struck Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady, another wounded District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delahanty, and a third s...
The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, ...
The refusal of the Communards to accept the authority of the French government led to the Commune being brutally suppressed by the regular F...
Khrushchev had already been elected First Secretary of the Communist Party, and his later rise to Chairman of the Council of Ministers place...
The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce fighting between around 21,000 Japanese troops and...
The EEC, sometimes referred to as the Common Market, survived until 2009 when it was absorbed into the European ...
Koch's announcement that he had identified the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis strengthened the emerging “germ theory” of disease, wh...
The Lewis and Clark Expedition began its journey home, having crossed the western United ...
Grotius was permitted to have books sent to him in prison, and these were transported in a large chest. Over time his guards became less vig...
Following its enactment on 21 March 1804, the Napoleonic Code became the foundation of the French legal system and was gradually extended to...