Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
General Joseph Gallieni, the military governor of Paris in at the start of World War I in 1914. The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 saw patriotic demonstrations on the Place de la Concorde and at the Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord as the mobilized soldiers departed for the front.
During World War I, a large portion of Giurgiu was destroyed by a fire, including the upper floors of the tower. [3] [4] The clock's mechanism was replaced several times, with the original mechanism being discovered in 2005, which can be found at the Teohari Antonescu History Museum in Giurgiu. An interesting aspect regarding the tower is its ...
"World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress. "Timeline of the First World War on 1914-1918-Online.
29 October – First trial for sorcery, Jeanne de Brigue is convicted by the Parlement of Paris and burned at the stake on 19 August 1391. 1391 August – Founding of the first corporation of artists, the Confrérie des peintres and tailleurs d'images. [26] 1393 The publication of first cookbook and how to run a household, titled Le Ménagier ...
Believed to be the first suburban riot in French history. [3] 1981: Rodéo (riot), riots that consisted of stealing cars, driving them in tight circles, and ultimately burning them. 1990: Rioting in Vaulx-en-Velin after a young man of Spanish origin was killed in a motorbike crash allegedly caused by police. [3]
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
2021 – Over 1,000 homes burned, and at least one person died in Marshall, Superior, and Louisville, Colorado in the Marshall fire. 2023 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires. In the most significant wildfire event in Hawaiian history, the city of Lahaina suffered widespread devastation. This fire is believed to have killed 102+ people, destroying over ...
However, when these and the French Fifth Army retreated following the events at Charleroi, the town was cut off from allied support, and subsequently besieged on August 25. The German heavy artillery succeeded in demolishing the key forts around the city, and General Joseph Anthelme Fournier, in command of the garrison in the city, surrendered ...