70th Anniversary (4th April 1949) of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO.
500th Anniversary (2nd May 1519) Leonardo da Vinci died in Clos Lucé, Amboise, France.
200th Anniversary (24th May 1819) of the birth of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India.
75th Anniversary (6th June 1944) of the D-Day landings, in Normandy.
100th Anniversary (28th June1919) of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, bringing about the end of hostilities between Germany and the Allied Powers, thereby ending World War 1.
65th Anniversary (4th July 1954) of the end of all food rationing in Britain following the end of World War II.
50th Anniversary (July 20th, 1969) - Apollo 11 lands the first two people - Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin - on the moon.
250th Anniversary (15th August 1769) of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte French military and political leader, born in Ajaccio.
80th Anniversary (1st September 1939) of the invasion by Germany of Poland, commencing World War II.
150th Anniversary (October 2nd, 1869) of the birth Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement again British rule.
125th Anniversary (16th October 1854) of the birth of Oscar Wilde, poet originally from Ireland before moving to London
30th Anniversary (9th November 1989) of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
75th Anniversary (16th December 1944) of the Battle of the Bulge during the Second World War.
500th Anniversary of the first circumnavigation of Earth by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, which sailed from Seville, Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522, after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.