My uncle Bill was on standby in Cyprus to go out to Suez but it ended before he had to go, he was 20. 

30 October 1864 - The Treaty of Vienna.

Formal ending of the Prusso-Danish War.

The background to the war are among the most complex in history, but to put it simply the death of the Danish King Frederik VII in 1863 led to a succession crisis in the southern Danish states of Schleswig and Holstein. Prussia refused to accept the accession of King Christian IX in those two states. 

The German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had embarked on a path of German expansion with his first target Denmark. War erupted in February and by July Denmark had been overrun by Prussian troops. A peace treaty was agreed in October to which Austria signed her name as Denmark gave up Schleswig-Holstein to be governed by an Austro-Prussian condominium.

The era of Prussian expansion had begun and would continue with war with Austria just two years later in which Prussia gained further territory from Austria's unfortunate allies and culminating in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. 

31 October 1863 - The Takapau Landings.

A river assault by British troops against the Maoris in New Zealand. 

The British claimed New Zealand by treaty with the Maoris in 1840, but for more than 30 years there was unrest among the Maori population resulting in four wars and numerous uprisings.

The largest campaign of the wars was the invasion of the Maori stronghold in the north of Waikato in 1863 involving, at its peak, 14,000 British troops. The invasion began in July. but supply problems and Maori tactics of avoiding battle in favour of hit and run raids meant that the advance stalled for three months. 

Finally on 31 October 600 troops boarded a flotilla of gunboats and armoured barges and sailed up the Waikato river bypassing the Maori fort of Meremere, from which they attracted heavy gunfire, to land nine miles upstream at Takapau ready to march on Meremere. The flotilla retuned downstream intending to bring a further 600 men up the next day, but sensing the danger the Maoris abandoned Meremere and took up defensive positions at Rangiriri.    

At the beginning this sounded like one of those stories in which the stolen loot was found buried somewhere, but no. 

1 November 1911 - The First Air Raid.

It took place during the Italo-Turkish War. Lt Giulio Gavotti took off from Tripoli in the recently captured Ottoman province of Tripolitania (modern Libya) in an Etrich Taube monoplane and dropped a single 4½lb bomb on Turkish positions at Ain Zara. He flew on to Tagiura where he released a further three bombs.  

At the beginning this sounded like one of those stories in which the stolen loot was found buried somewhere, but no. 

No, but finding structural remains from the 1700s is "old" even "ancient" for over here in the colonies. 

2 November 1912 - The Battle of Lule Burgas ended (28 October - 2 November).

A battle of the First Balkan War, the largest fought in Europe in the 44 years between the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War.

The 1911-12 First Balkan War saw the Ottoman Empire pitted against Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro with Bulgaria providing most of the men and suffering the most casualties. 

Under the command of Gen. Radko Dimitriev 108,000 Bulgarians advanced on the Ottoman capital Constantinople breaking through the first lines of defence reaching the Turks' second line at Lule Burgas on 28 October. Here 130,000 troops were dug in and for four days the battle ebbed and flowed until on the fifth day the Ottoman defences collapsed and the survivors retreated to new positions less than 20 miles outside Constantinople.

The Bulgarians lost 20,000 killed and wounded, the Turks 22,000.  

2 November 1912 - The Battle of Lule Burgas ended (28 October - 2 November).

A battle of the First Balkan War, the largest fought in Europe in the 44 years between the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War.

The 1911-12 First Balkan War saw the Ottoman Empire pitted against Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro with Bulgaria providing most of the men and suffering the most casualties. 

Under the command of Gen. Radko Dimitriev 108,000 Bulgarians advanced on the Ottoman capital Constantinople breaking through the first lines of defence reaching the Turks' second line at Lule Burgas on 28 October. Here 130,000 troops were dug in and for four days the battle ebbed and flowed until on the fifth day the Ottoman defences collapsed and the survivors retreated to new positions less than 20 miles outside Constantinople.

The Bulgarians lost 20,000 killed and wounded, the Turks 22,000.  

"Wars & rumors of wars" seems as if Matthew was right. See the Bible.