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AncientPages.com - On Nov. 28, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was later named The Strait of

AncientPages.com - On November 27, 1701, Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1701-1744), was born. He invented the centigrade (Celsius) temperature scale commonly used in Europe and founded

AncientPages.com - On November 24, 1996, Sorley MacLean, one of the most distinguished poets, died. Sorley MacLean, (in Gaelic: Somhairle Macgill-Eain) will be remembered as one of the greatest

AncientPages.com - On November 22, 1307, a Papal Bull, the so-called “Pastoralis Praeeminentiae” was issued by Pope Clement V to all Christian monarchs. Monarchs of Christendom were given

AncientPages.com - On November 21, 615, died Irish Saint Columbanus, who founded monasteries throughout France, Germany, and Italy. He was one of those many Irish missionaries who kept

AncientPages.com - During archaeological excavation, carried out in the S. Francesco Monastery at Lucca (Tuscany, Italy), a golden, centuries-old dental prosthesis was discovered in an ancient family tomb. Researchers

AncientPages.com - On November 18, 1477, English printer William Caxton printed the first book in England. It was his book, "Sayings of the Philosophers" (Dictes or Sayengis). Left:

AncientPages.com - On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro captured Atahualpa, the Last Emperor of the Inca Empire, in the town of Cajamarca, Peru. When he arrived in Cajamarca, the town

AncientPages.com - On November 14, 1716, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a famous German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, died. Born on July 1, 1646, in Leipzig, Germany, Leibniz was

AncientPages.com - On November 12, 1035, King Canute (Cnut The Great) died, a Danish King of England and ruler of one of the largest Nordic empires. The Viking king had

AncientPages.com - On November 10, 1150, the Scottish Dryburgh Abbey was founded, and it is believed that construction works continued for most of the following century. Dryburgh Abbey, located

AncientPages.com - On November 8, 1519, Hernán Cortés, a Spanish Conquistador, entered Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Cortés led an expedition that contributed much to the

AncientPages.com - On November 6, 1217, the Charter of the Forest was first issued at St Paul's Cathedral, London, as a complementary charter to the Magna Carta from which it had

AncientPages.com - On November 5, 1867, was born George Andrew Reisner an American archaeologist of Ancient Egypt and Palestine. George Andrew Reisner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1889,

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - He kept the true purpose of his expedition confidential. Until this day many people still do not know what kind of inner force drove