Important dates in history

January	Year	Event
17	1912	Scott arrives at the South Pole
20	1265	Simon de Montfort calls the first parliament in England
27	Annual	Holocaust Memorial Day
27	1945	Auschwitz-Birkenau liberated by Soviet troops during WWII
27	1926	Inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates his new television machine to members of the Royal Institution in London
30	1649	King Charles I was beheaded in Whitehall.
February	Year
1	1865	13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
6	1918	British women over the age of 30 obtain the right to vote
8	1587	Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded on the orders of her cousin England’s Queen Elizabeth I.
March	Year
4	1824	Sir William Hillary founded the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, which became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 1924
10	1876	The first telephone call was made
15	44 BC	Assassination of Julius Caesar, a key turning point in Roman history.
25	1965	The Selma to Montgomery marches, part of the U.S. civil rights movement, end in success
27	1625	King Charles I becomes King
April	Year
6	1896	First Modern Olympics
10	1998	The Good Friday Agreement was signed in Northern Ireland
12	1961	Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first ever human being in space
11	145	Septimius Severus, the first African-born Roman emperor, is recorded as being born
14	1912	Sinking of the Titanic
15	1945	The liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British forces

May	Year
5	1930	Amy Johnson set off alone in a single engine Gypsy Moth from Croydon
8	1945	VE Day anniversary – the end of the Second World War in Europe
9	879	Alfred defeats the Vikings
12	1820	Florence Nightingale is born
21	1799	Mary Anning is born
25	1940	The Dunkirk Evacuation starts

June	Year
2	1953	Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
4	1913	Death of Suffragette Emily Davison at Epsom Derby
6	1944	D-day landings – WW2
7	1095	First Crusade
8	793	First Viking attack on Lindisfarne
12	1929	Birth of Anne Frank
15	1215	King John sealed Magna Carta
22	1990	Dismantling Checkpoint Charlie
22	1948	Empire Windrush lands in Essex
22	1772	Somerset Case. Lord Mansfield sets out legal basis for freeing slaves
25	1950	The start of the Korean War
28	1914	Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

July	Year
	1665	Peak to Great Plague of London
1	1916	Start of the battle of the Somme
10	1940	Start of the Battle of Britain
14	1789	Storming of the Bastille – French Revolution
17	1936	The Spanish Civil War begins
20	1969	Moon Landing – Apollo 11 lands on the moon with first humans on the moon
25	1814	George Stephenson builds the first practical steam locomotive

August	Year
1	3114 BC	The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar used by the Maya begins
3	1492	Columbus Sets Sail
6	1945	Dropping of the first Atomic bomb
13	1964	The last execution in the UK when Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans were hanged for the murder of John Alan West, 1964
15	1945	VJ day – Japan surrenders in World War II, ending the war
22	1485	Henry Tudor becomes King of England and Wales, starting the Tudor dynasty
31	1997	Death of Princess Diana

September	Year
1	1939	WWII begins as Germany invades Poland
4	1666	The Great fire of London starts
11	2001	Terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon building in USA
26	1580	Explorer Francis Drake’s galleon Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, completing his circumnavigation of the globe.
28	1066	Invasion of England by William of Normandy starts
October	Year
		Black history month
18-31	1929	Wall Street Crash – start of Great Depression
14	1066	Battle of Hastings
21	1805	Battle of Trafalgar
16 – 29	1962	Cuban Missile Crisis
25	1415	The Battle of Agincourt
30	1925	John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter

November	Year
1	1955	Start of Vietnam conflict
4	1854	Florence Nightingale and a team of nurses arrived in the Crimea in 1854
4	1922	Discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb
5	1605	Gunpower Plot
9	1989	The fall of the Berlin Wall
11		Remembrance day
22	1963	Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
23	1805	Mary Seacole is born

December	Year
1	1955	Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery
7	1941	Japan attack on Pearl Harbour
17	1903	The Wright Flyer made the first sustained flight by a manned aircraft
29	1170	The assassination of Thomas Becket