Reports of cannibalism were also recorded during the First Crusade, as Crusaders were alleged to have fed on the bodies of their dead opponents following the Siege of Ma ' arrat al-Numan.

This was the First Siege of Gibraltar.

The supposed Holy Spear was unearthed from the floor of a Church during the Siege of Antioch ( 1098 ) by crusaders on the First Crusade, found by a poor and otherwise unknown monk named Peter Bartholomew.

* 1099 – The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

* 70 – First Jewish – Roman War: Siege of Jerusalem – Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount.

* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city.

Considered a traitor by most Jews, he recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish – Roman War, including the Siege of Masada.

* 1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.

In the final accords of the First Jewish – Roman War, the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire allegedly led to the mass suicide of the Sicarii rebels although there is no archaeological evidence to support this.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

This sepoy POW shows the conditions of the garrison at Kut at the end Siege of Kut | of the siege in the First World War.

The other major siege outside Europe during the First World War was in Mesopotamia, at the Siege of Kut.

* 1097: the Siege of Nicaea during the First Crusade

* 1098: the Siege of Antioch during the First Crusade

First casualty of the Siege of Sarajevo ( b. 1968 )

* January 26 – First English Civil War – Battle of Nantwich: The Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists, allowing them to end the 6-week Siege of Nantwich in Cheshire, England.

* Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade:

** June 7 – The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

* Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a Sahaba died during the First Arab Siege of Constantinople

* The First Arab Siege of Constantinople ( 674 – 678 ) continues.

* Yazid ibn Muawiya is sent with Arab reinforcements for the First Arab Siege of Constantinople ( 674 – 678 ).

* The First Arab Siege of Constantinople ( 674 – 678 ) continues.

* November 23 – First Siege of Krujë: Albanian victory ; Ottoman army of approximately 100, 000 men retreats from Albania.

First, the battle was regarded as a disastrous defeat, then it faded essentially from Arab histories, leading to a modern dispute which regards it as either a secondary loss to the great defeat of the Second Siege of Constantinople, where the Bulgarian Emperor Tervel played a crucial role, or a part of a series of great macrohistorical defeats which together brought about the fall of the first Caliphate.

It was founded in Spain, on January 1961, by former officers, Pierre Lagaillarde ( who led the 1960 Siege of Algiers ), General Raoul Salan ( who took part in the 1961 Algiers putsch or " Generals ' Uprising ") and Jean-Jacques Susini, along with other members of the French Army, including Yves Guérin-Sérac, and former members of the French Foreign Legion from the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 54 ).

First elections held in Gibraltar.

At intervals came from his studio such pieces as The Red Cross Knight, Abraham Offering up Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness, The Death of Major Peirson, The Arrest of Five Members of the Commons by Charles the First, The Siege of Gibraltar, The Surrender of Admiral DeWindt to Lord Camperdown, The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey by the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk, The Resurrection, and others.

He sends the prizes to Gibraltar under the command of the Boadiceas aged First Lieutenant Akers.

A Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base was opened at Gibraltar during the First World War.

In 1881 the Maltese garrison was ordered to South Africa as reinforcements following the British defeat at the Battle of Majuba Hill in the First Boer War, but by the time their ships reached Gibraltar it was announced that the war had ended.

* First to his cousin, Isabel of Korikos, by whom he had one son, Leo IV ( born 1309 ).

First use of the name "" was in 1309.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.

* 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

* 1935 – First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.

* 1864 – 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention.

* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )

* 1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3 – 1.

* 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

* 1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

* 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O ' Bannon.

* 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.

* 1914 – The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.

* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

* 1944 – First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.