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AncientPages.com - On November 20, 1739, the Battle of Porto Bello started. It was a historic naval battle between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement

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 4, 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings. The tomb was intact and packed with antiquities, including

AncientPages.com - On November 2, 1950, died George Bernard Shaw. He was an Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist who strongly influenced Western cultural and political life. George Bernard Shaw

AncientPages.com - On October 31, 1864, Nevada became the 36th state to join the United States. It was during a critical period of the Civil War. This event was facilitated by

AncientPages.com - On October 28, 1636, Harvard University - America's oldest learning institution, was formed. Harvard Yard winter 2009. Image credit: chensiyuan - CC BY-SA 4.0 It was initially called

AncientPages.com - On October 26, 1689, Austrian General Enea Silvio Piccolomini led a campaign against the Ottomans in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Macedonia. Piccolomini (ca.1640-1689) was an Italian nobleman with his

AncientPages.com - On October 24, 1360, the Treaty of Brétigny was ratified. It was drafted earlier on May 8, 1360 between King Edward III of England and King John II

AncientPages.com - On October 22, 1797, the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris took place by André-Jacques Garnerin. Garnerin releases the balloon