576 Episodes

  1. 20th January 1850: Robert McClure departs on the first expedition to transit the Northwest Passage

    Published: 20/01/2026

  2. 19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid

    Published: 19/01/2026

  3. 18th January 1778: Captain James Cook becomes the first known European to encounter the Hawaiian Islands

    Published: 18/01/2026

  4. 17th January 1991: Combat phase of the Gulf War begins when Operation Desert Storm is launched

    Published: 17/01/2026

  5. 16th January 27 BCE: The Roman Senate grant Octavian the titles Augustus and Princeps

    Published: 16/01/2026

  6. 15th January 1867: 40 people die when ice on the boating lake in Regent’s Park breaks while they are skating

    Published: 15/01/2026

  7. 14th January 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference in Morocco

    Published: 14/01/2026

  8. 13th January 1935: The Territory of the Saar Basin voted in a plebiscite to reunite with Germany

    Published: 13/01/2026

  9. 12th January 1913: The name “Stalin” meaning “man of steel” first used in print by Joseph Dzhugashvili

    Published: 12/01/2026

  10. 11th January 1923: French and Belgian troops marched into Germany and occupied the industrial Ruhr area

    Published: 11/01/2026

  11. 10th January 49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River on his march to Rome

    Published: 10/01/2026

  12. 9th January 1806: State funeral of Admiral Horatio Nelson takes place in London, following his death at the Battle of Trafalgar

    Published: 09/01/2026

  13. 8th January 1918: United States President Woodrow Wilson outlines his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen Points

    Published: 08/01/2026

  14. 7th January 1979: Pol Pot of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Cambodia) overthrown when Vietnamese forces capture the capital city Phnom Penh

    Published: 07/01/2026

  15. 6th January 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out the “Four Freedoms” in his State of the Union address

    Published: 06/01/2026

  16. 5th January 1968: The Prague Spring begins with Alexander Dubček becoming the new leader of Czechoslovakia

    Published: 05/01/2026

  17. 4th January 1642: Charles I of England attempts to arrest the Five Members of Parliament, prompting the English Civil War

    Published: 04/01/2026

  18. 3rd January 1868: Meiji Restoration begins in Japan when loyalists seize control of the Kyoto Imperial Palace

    Published: 03/01/2026

  19. 2nd January 1980: Jimmy Carter instigates the end of détente after the USSR invades Afghanistan

    Published: 02/01/2026

  20. 1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed and signed by the four major Allied nations during the Second World War

    Published: 01/01/2026

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