Category: Events

    1485  King Henry VII of England establishes the Yeoman of the Guard. 1823  Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, dies. 1905  In his October Manifesto, the Tsar of Russia, agrees to...

    1746    An Earthquake destroys Lima in Peru. 1886  Statue of Liberty inaugurated on Liberty Island by US President Grover Cleveland. 1899   Death of Otto Morgenthaler, German inventor of the Linotype machine....

    The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglan, the overall commander, had intended to send the Light Brigade to...

    In October 1909, Elise Raymonde de Laroche appealed to her friend, aviator and aeroplane builder Charles Voisin, to instruct her in how to fly. On 22 October 1909, de Laroche went to the...

  In October 1909, Elise Raymonde de Laroche appealed to her friend, aviator and aeroplane builder

  1772  Birth of the English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1789  Martial law is declared in France. 1805  Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson the British commander at Trafalgar, defeats the French under Admiral Villeneuve but...

  1822  The first edition of the Sunday Times is published in Britain. 1884  Birth of Bela Lugosi,  hungarian born actor famous for his roles in horror films. 1890  Sir Richard Burton, explorer and...

  1781  General Charles Cornwallis surrenders his troops to the American forces at Yorktown. 1864  American Civil War battle of Cedar Creek. 1897  George Mortimer Pullman, inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, dies aged...