January:
80th anniversary of rationing introduced – Second World War.
100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles coming into effect, officially ending WW1.
100th anniversary of Prohibition coming into effect in the USA.
200th anniversary of the death of King George III.
February:
200th anniversary of the Cato Street Conspiracy being exposed. It was a plot to murder the Cabinet of the UK Government.
March;
75th anniversary of the death of diary writer Anne Frank in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This is the date attributed to her death which is unknown but thought to be in March 1945.
April:
250th anniversary of the birth of English poet William Wordsworth.
May:
VE Day 75th anniversary
200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale.
45th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency.
30th anniversary of the dismantling of Checkpoint Charlie.
70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War (1950-53).
100th anniversary of the Canonisation of Joan of Arc at Saint Peter’s Basilica.
80th anniversary of the Dunkirk Evacuation during World War Two.
June:
500th anniversary of King Henry VIII meeting King Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
150th anniversary of the death of English author Charles Dickens.
July:
80 years from the start of the Battle of Britain.
75th anniversary of the start of the Potsdam Conference, World War Two.
75th anniversary of the USA detonating the world’s first nuclear weapon, at the Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
75th anniversary of the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meeting in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany after World War Two.
August:
30th anniversary of the start of the First Gulf War.
75 years since the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb.
75th anniversary of VJ Day.
September:
400th anniversary of the Sailing of the Mayflower.
500th anniversary of the birth of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who was chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I.
October:
80th anniversary of the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland.
November:
50th anniversary of the death of French President Charles de Gaulle.
100th anniversary of the funeral and burial of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey.
100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Dublin during the Irish War of Indpendence.
500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan reaching the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan and becoming the first European to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
December:
250th anniversary of the birth of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
300th anniversary of the birth of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie.