| 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. |
| April | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1896 | First Modern Olympics |
| 10 | 1998 | The Good Friday Agreement was signed in Northern Ireland |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |