On This Day In History Archive

AncientPages.com - On October 19, 1216, died John, King of England died of dysentery at Newark Castle in Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. He was the youngest son of Henrik

AncientPages.com - On September 11, 1297, the Battle of Stirling Bridge took place near Stirling, at River Forth. It was the first Scottish Freedom War when Andrew Moray

AncientPages.com - On Aug 24, 1185, the Sack of Thessalonica by Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily took place and was one of the worst disasters to befall the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century.

AncientPages.com - On June 21, 1798, there was a military encounter between the Irish Rebellion  and more than 13,000 British soldiers who launched an attack on Vinegar Hill outside Enniscorthy, County

AncientPages.com - On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia Cook was born in northeast England in 1728, and in his late

AncientPages.com - On April 17, 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) was recorded to have given the first presentation of his Canterbury Tales at the royal English court of Richard II.

AncientPages.com - On April 13, 1598, Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes. It confirmed Roman Catholicism as the state religion and at the same time, it

AncientPages.com - On April 9, 1747, the Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, becomes the last man in Britain to be publicly beheaded at Tower Hill, London. The

AncientPages.com - On April 3, 686, Maya king Yuknoom Ixquiac (Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk') - "Jaguar Paw Smoke" assumes the crown of Calakmul, now a Maya archaeological site in the

AncientPages.com - On April 1, 1826, American Samuel Morey patented his “Gas or Vapor Engine” — the first internal combustion engine patent in the United States. Morey was the

AncientPages.com - On March 28, 845, Paris was attacked by Vikings under the leadership of Ragnar Lodbrok, nicknamed ‘Hairy Breeches’, referring to the animal-skin trousers that he wore. One

AncientPages.com - The first battle of Gaza took place on 26 March 1917. The city of Gaza was the center of the main Turkish defensive position in southern Palestine. The first

AncientPages.com - On March 24, 1401, Turco-Mongol emperor Timur, who in English became known as Tamburlaine,  sacked the ancient and civilized town of Syria - Damascus, the second city of