French Revolution

1666: Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed 1792: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than 200 priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers during the September Massacres of the French Revolution 1902: "A Trip To The Moon", the first ever sci-fi film, is released 1944: Holocaust diarist Anne Frank is sent to Auschwitz concentration camp 1945: Japanese officials sign the act of unconditional surrender, finally bringing to an end six years of world war 1979: Police discover the body of a young woman - later confirmed to be the 12th victim of the Yorkshire Ripper - in an alleyway near the centre of Bradford 1985: It is announced that the Titanic has been found by a U.S.

1796 - The September Massacres, which killed some 1,200 people, begin when an armed band attacks prisoners while they were being transferred between jails in Paris.

The French Revolution led to regicide, the September Massacres, the Terror, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Catholics in the Vendee region of France, and almost two decades of Napoleonic wars.