02:40

30th May 1911: Indianapolis 500 automobile race takes place for the first time

02:32

27th May 1942: Reinhard Heydrich fatally injured in an assassination attempt in Prague

02:27

25th May 1521: Edict of Worms issued by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V against Martin Luther

02:39

24th May 1798: United Irishmen Rebellion, known as the Irish Rebellion of 1798, begins in Ireland

02:13

22nd May 1939: The Pact of Steel signed between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

02:25

21st May 1904: FIFA founded in Paris as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association

02:20

20th May 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law

02:27

15th May 1943: Stalin dissolves the Comintern that aimed to promote worldwide communism

02:35

12th May 1926: Norge airship makes the first verified flight over the North Pole

02:32

11th May 1812: British prime minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in the House of Commons

02:21

9th May 1386: Treaty of Windsor, the world's longest-lasting treaty, signed by Portugal and England

02:29

7th May 1253: William of Rubruck sets out on his journey into the Mongol Empire

02:35

6th May 1906: Russia's Constitution of 1906, known as the Fundamental Laws

02:37

4th May 1926: General strike of 1.7 million workers begins in the United Kingdom

02:35

1st May 1840: The Penny Black goes on sale in the UK as the world’s first pre-paid postage stamp

02:23

30th April 1789: George Washington inaugurated as the first President of the USA

02:16

29th April 1909: The People's Budget introduced to the British Parliament by David Lloyd George

02:39

26th April 1933: The Gestapo secret police established by Hermann Göring in Nazi Germany

02:24

23rd April 1348: Order of the Garter founded by King Edward III of England

02:35

22nd April 1889: Oklahoma Land Rush opens 2 million acres of Unassigned Lands to settlement

02:29

20th April 1792: The French Revolutionary Wars begin when the Assembly vote for war against Austria

02:37

17th April 1907: Ellis Island in New York Harbor has its busiest day, processing 11,747 immigrants

02:37

14th April 1935: Black Sunday dust storm sweeps across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era

02:35

12th April 1861: American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor

02:39

10th April 1815: Most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occurred at Mount Tambora

02:39

8th April 1838: The steamship Great Western begins her maiden voyage to New York

02:32

6th April 1793: Committee of Public Safety established by the National Convention of France

02:27

5th April 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European to encounter Easter Island

02:27

3rd April 1721: Robert Walpole becomes the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain

02:31

30th March 1900: Archaeologists discover the first Linear B tablet at the ancient site of Knossos

02:29

29th March 1806: Construction of the Cumberland Road, the first federally funded highway, authorised

02:30

27th March 1964: Most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America struck Alaska

02:33

26th March 1351: Combat of the Thirty fought between English and Breton soldiers

02:25

23rd March 1857: World’s first successful passenger elevator installed in a New York store

02:31

22nd March 1622: The Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia

02:35

19th March 1831: City Bank of New York robbed in the first widely-reported bank heist in US history

02:27

16th March 1660: England's Long Parliament dissolved after twenty years in session

02:20

14th March 1939: The First Slovak Republic proclaimed, as a client state of Nazi Germany

02:26

11th March 1941: Lend-Lease Act signed into law by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

02:29

9th March 1776: "The Wealth of Nations" published by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith

02:29

7th March 1850: Daniel Webster makes his "Seventh of March" speech in favour of Compromise of 1850

02:28

5th March 1936: Supermarine Spitfire aircraft makes its maiden test flight

02:29

4th March 1865: Andrew Johnson, US Vice President, is drunk while delivering his inaugural address

02:38

2nd March 537: First Siege of Rome begins as Belisarius' army is encircled by the Ostrogoths

02:27

1st March 1562: Massacre of Vassy marks the beginning of the French Wars of Religion

02:23

29th February 1796: Jay Treaty begins ten years of peaceful trade between the US and Britain

02:39

28th February 1849: First ‘49ers arrive in San Francisco to begin the California Gold Rush

02:37

24th February 1920: Hitler announces the 25 Point Programme and the establishment of the NSDAP

02:30

22nd February 1946: The 'Long Telegram' sent by George Kennan, a senior US diplomat in Moscow

02:36

20th February 1939: Pro-Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden in New York City

02:38

18th February 1915: Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare during the First World War

02:19

16th February 1861: Abraham Lincoln meets the girl who suggested he grew a beard to gain more votes

02:39

14th February 1939: German battleship Bismarck launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg

02:29

11th February 1919: Friedrich Ebert elected as first President of the German Weimar Republic

02:26

9th February 1950: Joseph McCarthy starts the Second Red Scare claiming Communist infiltration

02:30

7th February 1914: Charlie Chaplin’s iconic ‘Tramp’ character appears for the first time on film

02:24

5th February 1909: Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic, announced by Leo Baekeland

02:32

3rd February 1972: The deadliest recorded blizzard hit northwestern, central and southern Iran

02:35

2nd February 1709: Alexander Selkirk rescued after spending more than four years as a castaway

02:30

1st February 1861: Texas declares its secession from the United States