With the discovery of Richard III and Leicester City's return to the Premier League, there have been some pretty big days for the city recently.
Now, a historian's latest project has involved digging back over the past 1,000 years and finding the most important 100 days for Leicester and putting them all in her new book.
Natasha Sheldon's Leicester in 100 Dates is the results of hours spent poring over the archives of the Leicester Mercury and other documents.
Natasha, who lives in Knighton, said: "It's a selection of 100 dates from Leicester's history and they're all fascinating.
"There are big events, light-hearted things and recent important days, such as the Queen's visit for the Jubilee and the discovery of Richard III.
"Among the most dramatic was the day in 1173, when the forces of King Henry II sacked Leicester.
"His soldiers breached the city walls and whole districts were obliterated and the area around the castle decimated.
"There are big international occasions, like Armistice Day in 1918. I researched using the Records Office in Wigston and old newspapers and found a description of the end of the First World War.
"Boys in the street built effigies of the Kaiser and attacked them, while people working in armament factories stopped working and came out into the street. Then at 2pm all the church bells rang."
Natasha's book is her second for The History Press, which also published her short book, Not a Guide to Leicester, last year.
She said: "It's been interesting to research. Leicester has an interesting history full of executions, floods and lots and lots of strikes."
Here are some of Leicester's biggest days of the past 1,000 years:
February 22, 1094
After the Battle of Hastings, the manor of Leicester was awarded to Hugh de Grandmesnil, a supporter of William the Conqueror.
November 29, 1530
Disgraced former first minister of Henry VIII, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, died at Leicester Abbey after being stripped of his offices having failed to secure Henry a divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
March 15, 1773
The news broke that a new kind of stocking-making machine, capable of doing the work of 60 men, had been ordered by local hosiers John Good and Nathaniel Simpson, spelling disaster for the Leicester workforce.
July 5, 1841
Leicester was selected as the departure point for the world's first package tour – to Loughborough. This modest trip was the brainchild of cabinet-maker Thomas Cook.
November 19, 1940
The night of Germany's most intensive attack on the city, which became known as the Leicester Blitz. The sky turned red as bombs and parachute mines were dropped, killing 40 people in Highfields.
April 5, 1961
The first traffic wardens began their solo patrols – the first in any UK city outside London. They were the idea of Leicester's chief constable, Robert Mark.
September 10, 1984
Alec Jeffreys, a Leicester University research scientist, was finishing an experiment on inherited illnesses when he stumbled upon the key to identifying individuals by their genes, giving rise to DNA fingerprinting.
April 1, 1997
After a 23-year fight, political power in Leicester moved back from County Hall to the New Walk Centre in the city.
February 4, 2013
The University of Leicester's Richard Buckley confirmed the identity of the skeleton found in 2012 under a Leicester car park as that of Richard III.
Leicester in 100 Dates, is out now, priced at £9.99.