1194
The Portsmouth Royal Dockyard was established by Richard the Lionheart in 1194
wider 830+ years of continuous Royal Navy operations make Portsmouth the wider most-historically-significant continuous naval base in the world.
On this day
October 21
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on October 21 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
3 events
3 centuries
3 countries
1868
October 21, 1868 Hayward Earthquake
The Hayward Fault is the main active strike-slip fault running 119 km along the eastern San Francisco Bay shore from San Pablo Bay (Hercules + Richmond) through Berkeley + Oakland + San Leandro + Hayward + Fremont + San Jose to Calaveras Reservoir.
1941
The Kragujevac Massacre of October 21, 1941
a Wehrmacht-conducted mass killing of approximately 2,800 Serbian civilians and Yugoslav Royal Army POWs at Kragujevac — was the single deadliest day of the German WWII occupation of Yugoslavia and one of the main Wehrmacht atrocities of the European war.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →