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AncientPages.com - On February 10, 1355, the so-called St Scholastica Day Riot took place in Oxford, England. The students complained about the quality of the ales they were
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AncientPages.com - On February 9, 1555, Master John Hooper, bishop of Worcester and Gloucester, is burnt at the stake to defend the gospel at Gloucester. The sheriff's men were
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AncientPages.com - On the night of 8/9 February 1855, a strange phenomenon – the so-called 'Devil's Footprints'- occurred around the Exe Estuary in East Devon and South Devon, England. The trails of hoof-like marks
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AncientPages.com - In the early morning of February 7, 1920, in Irkutsk, Siberia, the Bolsheviks executed Aleksandr Kolchak, one of the leaders of the White Movement and the so-called
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AncientPages.com - The Battle of San Domingo was fought on February 6, 1806, between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off the southern coast of the
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AncientPages.com - On February 5, 62 AD, Pompeii, an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, was at the epicenter of an earthquake. The earthquake was approximately 7.5 in magnitude
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AncientPages.com - On February 4, 960, an important political and historical event occurred in China. The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song initiated the Song
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AncientPages.com - On February 4, 1488, Dias reached Mossel Bay, South Africa. He had passed Africa’s southern tip. Dias rounded the cape and landed. Since it was the day
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AncientPages.com - On February 3, 1706, the Battle of Fraustadt was fought between Sweden, Saxony-Poland, and their Russian allies near Fraustadt (present-day Wschowa) on Poland's western border. It
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AncientPages.com - On February 2, 1461, the battle was fought near Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire, at a site not far from the border with Wales. The young Edward,
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AncientPages.com - On February 1, 1662, the Chinese general Koxinga seized the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. Koxinga (1624-1662) was a Chinese military leader by many regarded as a
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AncientPages.com - Reginald Walter Bonham was born on January 31, 1906, in St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England. Bonham was the most famous British blind player ever. He was known for his
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AncientPages.com - On January 30, 1972, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, British Army paratroopers shot 26 unarmed civilians, all Northern Catholics, during a protest march against internment. This tragic event
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AncientPages.com - On January 29-30, 1943, the naval Battle of Rennell Island was fought off Guadalcanal. It was the last major naval clash between U.S. and Japanese forces during the Guadalcanal
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AncientPages.com - On January 28, 1858, Eugène Dubois was born in Eijsden, Netherlands. Dubois - a Dutch anatomist, geologist, anthropologist, and paleontologist was famous for having discovered remains
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AncientPages.com - On January 27, 1593, the Vatican began a seven-year trial against an Italian Dominican cleric, Giordano Bruno. Bruno was born in Nola, at the foot of
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AncientPages.com - On January 26, 1500, Brazil was discovered by Vicente Yañez Pinzóñ, a Spanish explorer who had once sailed with Columbus. Interestingly, by that date, Brazil was already
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AncientPages.com - On January 25, 1905, a 3,106-carat diamond was discovered during a routine inspection at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa. The diamond, weighing 1.33 pounds,
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AncientPages.com - On January 24, 1965, Britain's greatest war-time leader Winston Churchill died in London. Born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, in 1874, Churchill joined the British Fourth Hussars,
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AncientPages.com - On January 23, 1909, a telegraphed distress call came in from the captain of the ocean liner RMS Republic, which in dense fog, collided with an
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AncientPages.com - On January 22, 1506, a group of 150 Swiss mercenaries led by their Captain Kaspar of Silenen in the Canton of Uri entered the Vatican for
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AncientPages.com - On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It happened one day after the king was
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AncientPages.com - On January 20, 1569, Myles Coverdale who printed the first English Bible -died. Coverdale was a clergyman and Classics scholar who produced the first complete printed
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AncientPages.com - On Jan 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer, was born in Boston. Poe was a writer, editor, and literary critic, best known for his poetry
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AncientPages.com - On January 18, 1778, Captain James Cook, the English explorer, became the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands. He arrived on the Islands on his third
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AncientPages.com - On January 17, 1781, the Battle of Cowpens took place just north of the town of Cowpens, South Carolina. The American forces were led by Daniel Morgan,
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AncientPages.com - On January 16, 378, warlord Siyaj K'ak' (or 'Fire is Born') conquered Tikal, Uaxactun, and the city of Copan. Siyaj K'ak' - the emissary of Spear-Thrower-Owl
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AncientPages.com - On January 15, 1929, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia. King was twentieth-century America’s most compelling civil rights leader. After entering Morehouse College
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AncientPages.com - On January 14, 1784, the American Revolution ended, after almost a decade of bloodshed. The Congress of the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris, the official
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AncientPages.com - On January 13, 1404, the Act Against Multipliers was signed into law. English alchemists were forbidden to use their knowledge to create precious metals. The British parliament
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AncientPages.com - On January 12, 1976, the ‘Queen of Crime’, Agatha Christie died. She was a detective mystery writer whose work sold over two billion copies and was translated
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AncientPages.com - On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California. Earhart completed a 2,400-mile trip from Wheeler
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AncientPages.com - On January 10, 1645, William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed at Tower Hill in London, England. Laud (1573 – 11645) was the Archbishop of Canterbury
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AncientPages.com - On 9 January 681, the Twelfth Council of Toledo was initiated by the new King Erwig, a king of the Visigoths in Hispania (680–687). One of its
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AncientPages.com - On January 8, 378 AD, a warlord Siyaj K'ak', conquered Waka (El Perú), now known as a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site occupied from about 500 BC
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