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AncientPages.com - On February 23, 1455, Europe’s first mass-produced book - the Gutenberg Bible - was printed with movable type in Mainz, Germany.  The book was a Latin language Bible.

AncientPages.com - Some several thousand years ago, there once flourished a great civilization in the Indus Valley. The largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and

AncientPages.com - On February 22, 1784, the 52nd birthday of President George Washington, a wooden ship was constructed and named "The Empress of China." As the first voyage between

AncientPages.com - On February 21, 1437, James I of Scotland was killed in Perth on February 21, 1437, but the exact location of his grave is unknown today. 

AncientPages.com - On February 20, 1901, the Russian Orthodox Church censored Count Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, because his public statements contradicted the articles of orthodox belief.

AncientPages.com - On February 18, 1478, George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, who conspired against his brother, Edward IV, during the Wars of the Roses,  was convicted of treason and executed

AncientPages.com - On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 - 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the thirteenth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, who ruled c. 1332

AncientPages.com - On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 p.m., the USS Maine exploded, killing 260 men aboard. Public opinion in the United States, urged on by the yellow

AncientPages.com - On February 13, 1578,  Tycho Brahe first sketched the "Tychonic system," a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System.  Tycho

AncientPages.com - King Arthur is one of, if not the most legendary icons of medieval Britain. His popularity has lasted centuries, mostly thanks to the numerous incarnations of his

AncientPages.com - On February 11, 660 AD, a memorable holiday was celebrated in Japan. The so-called National Foundation Day commemorates the nation's creation and is also related to

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 ale they were

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

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

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