8th October to 14th October

8th October
1856   Second Opium War starts when Chinese board the Arrow, a Hong Kong merchant
1862   Battle of Perryville, Union forces defeat Confederate invasion of Kentucky
1918   Alvin York kills 25 Germans and captures another 132

9th October
1806   Prussia declares war on France
1864   Battle of Tom's Brook, Union Cavalry defeat Confederate forces
1940   A Luftwaffe bomb hits St Pauls Cathedral at the height of the Blitz

10th October
732    Battle of Tours, Franks defeat Moor invasion force
1938   The Sudetenland joins Nazi Germany under the Munich Agreement

11th October
1776   Battle of Valcour Island, British defeat Americans in the first action of the US Navy
1899   Second Boer War starts between the British and the Boers
1982   The Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, is lifted from the seabed

12th October
539bc  Cyrus the Great captures Babylon
1933    US Army sell their prison on Alcatraz Island to the Department of Justice
2000    The USS Cole is badly damaged by bombers in Aden

13th October
1307   The Knights Templar are imprisoned in France
1812   Battleof Queenston Heights, British repulse US invasion of Canada
1943   New Italian Government declares war on Nazi Germany

14th October
1066   Norman invaders under William defeat the Saxon Army under Harold
1806   Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Napoleons forces defeat Prussians
1939   U-47 enters Scapa Flow and sinks the British Battleship HMS Royal Oak