14th October 1892: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle first published

11th October 1986: Reykjavík Summit takes place between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

8th October 1856: Second Opium War begins after the crew of the Arrow cargo ship are arrested

5th October 1914: First recorded aerial combat victory between French and German aircraft

2nd October 1766: Nottingham Cheese Riot takes place at the city’s Goose Fair, triggered food prices

29th September 1916: John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire according to newspapers

26th September 1687: The Parthenon in Athens explodes while it's being used as a gunpowder magazine

23rd September 1862: Otto von Bismarck appointed Minister-President of Prussia by King Wilhelm I

20th September 1378: Western Schism divides the Church after the election of Antipope Clement VII

17th September 1908: Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash

14th September 1741: Handel finishes writing his oratorio 'Messiah' in London

11th September 1792: Theft of the French Blue diamond, now known as the Hope Diamond

8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz takes place in Argentina

5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet spy network in the West

2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa between Richard I of England and Saladin ends the Third Crusade

31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London leads to John Snow’s work on germ-contaminated water

29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment on electromagnetic induction

26th August 1914: Battle of Tannenberg begins early in WW1 between Russia and Germany

25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper

23rd August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad experiences bombing raids from the German Luftwaffe

20th August 1975: NASA launches Viking 1, the first lander on Mars to send images back to Earth

19th August 1934: The first All-American Soap Box Derby held in Dayton, Ohio

17th August 1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell published in the United Kingdom

15th August 1965: The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium, in front of a crowd of over 55,000 people

13th August 1521: End of the Aztec Empire with the Fall of Tenochtitlan to Hernán Cortés

12th August 1981: IBM announces the release of the 5150, the first IBM Personal Computer

10th August 1961: US begins Operation Ranch Hand to destroy trees and crops during the Vietnam War

8th August 1786: Mont Blanc successfully climbed for the first time by Balmat and Paccard

5th August 1914: The Battle of Liège begins in Belgium, the first engagement of the First World War

4th August 1789: The August Decrees result in the abolition of the feudal system in France