AncientPages.com – On April 29, 1429, Joan of Arc, the 17-year-old French peasant, entered Orleans, the city besieged by the English. This most unusual historical event occurred during the Hundred Years’ War, a long struggle between England and France over
AncientPages.com – Two pilots Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhail Gordienko took off on a mission to fly between Moscow and America in the shortest possible time. The plane developed for the flight was the red bomber, a twin-engined monoplane, the TSKB-30, named
AncientPages.com – The Vikings were accomplished navigators, artisans, traders and story tellers, but their greatest triumph was the ship they built. Draken Harald, the largest Viking ship built in modern times, is a re-creation of the “big ships” described in the
AncientPages.com – On April 27, 1124, following the death of his brother Alexander, David I (Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim) made himself king of Scotland with the backing of Henry I of England. David I (born between 1083 and 1085) was
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have begun digging up two Roman baths hidden in a passageway below the city of Bath, in the south-west of England. Archaeologists believe one of the baths dates to the first century AD and the other from the second.
AncientPages.com – On April 26, 1900, seismologist Charles Richter was born near Hamilton, Ohio, USA. Richter became involved in earthquake engineering by promoting good earthquake building codes and proper training for people who live in earthquake zones. Charles Richter & his
AncientPages.com – On April 25, 1507, Martin Waldseemüller (ca. 1470-ca. 1518) was the first to suggest that the newly discovered landmass in the New World should be called America. It was, in fact, in South America. The last known copy of
AncientPages.com – On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Hubble Space Telescope. The following day, Hubble was released into space and began its great work of reshaping our perception
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A skeleton lying down with a jorum in his hand and a wine pitcher and bread on the side, is depicted on a beautiful, 2,400-year-old mosaic discovered in Antakya, Hatay Province in southern Turkey. The
AncientPages.com – The great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was probably born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. Very little is known about his life, yet his literary legacy has influenced many worldwide. Statue of Shakespeare (1872) in Central Park, New
AncientPages.com – Recent discovery of surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolia, Turkey indicates that the ancient city was the health center of the Taşeli region. The excavations at the site
AncientPages.com – On April 22, 1509, Henry VIII took the crown as the ruler of all England. Henry VIII is best known for his six wives, whose fate is described in the famous rhyme: “Divorced, Beheaded, Died: Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.”
AncientPages.com – April 21, 753 BC, is a mythological date when Rome is founded by Romulus, one of the twin brothers. In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother Remus were the children of Rhea Silvia and Mars (or, in some variations,
AncientPages.com – Working now in the lab conditions, scientists have opened the 2,000-year-old coffin thought to belong to Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun. The remains of the “Marquis of Haihun” were found in a coffin from a 2,000-year-old tomb that
AncientPages.com – On April 20, 1535, an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as the “Sun Dog” was observed over Stockholm. The painting that depicts the event was named “Weather Sun”) (in Swedish: Vädersol) and is considered the oldest depiction of Stockholm in color, the oldest Swedish landscape
AncientPages.com – Prehistoric pits, two Neolithic monuments and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of 150 graves containing spears, knives, jewellery and bone combs have been discovered at an army site where anti-tank weaponry was tested during World War Two. One burial at Bulford
