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 campaign of World War II. The US Navy heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-29)
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 of Java man. Two social species at Dmanisi. (a) altruistic behaviour of
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 Mount Vesuvius, in 1548, and at the age of 17, he joined the
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 considered a Portuguese possession. Following the ruling of a previous pope, all
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, was named the “Cullinan” (after Sir Thomas Cullinan, who owned the mine)
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Aigai, located in the Yunusemre district, is one of the 12 cities founded by the people of Aiol in western Anatolia. It has a history of 2,800 years. Mentioned by both Herodotus and Strabo, it was
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, after his father’s death in 1895. He did not succeed very well
AncientPages.com – Sometimes called Sweden’s first city, Birka was once of the most important trading centers during the Viking Age. Located on the island Björkö in Lake Mälaren, Sweden Birka has long served as an important archaeological site that sheds light
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 Italian ship,” Florida,” and began to sink. The nearby Nantucket station relaid the
AncientPages.com – Hidden deep in jungle of in Honduras, Central America, there is a mysterious place known as the White City – some call it “Lost City Of The Monkey God. Discovered in 2012, the “White City” or a “Lost City of
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 the first time through the “Porta del Popolo.” Pope Julius II blessed
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The mystery of Viking ruler Rollo continues. An ancient sarcophagus Fécamp, Normandy, France has been opened, and analysis has been conducted, but the results are startling and not what anyone expected. While trying to solve
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 convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers. The French National Convention sentenced him
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 English Bible. He was probably born in Yorkshire in 1488, but little
AncientPages.com – A large tomb of the famous Viking chief, Ulv Galiciefarer, may have been discovered in northern Jutland, Denmark. For now, it is perhaps too soon to say whether this theory is correct or not, but according to an archaeologist,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Some would say it’s just a piece of rock, but to a Neanderthal that lived 130,000 years ago, it was a precious item. He or she picked it up and decided to decorate a cave
