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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
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AncientPages.com - The Classic Maya revered their divine rulers and treated them as living souls after death. In northern Guatemala, archaeologists have now unearthed an ancient tomb belonging to
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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
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AncientPages.com - On August 29, 1475, the Treaty of Picquigny was signed that ended a brief war between England and France. It was an important peace treaty that followed
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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.
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AncientPages.com - On August 12, 1099, shortly after the capture of Jerusalem, the Battle of Ascalon was fought and it is considered the last action of the First Crusade.
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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
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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)
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AncientPages.com - On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia Cook was born in north-east England in 1728, and in his late
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AncientPages.com - On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Sam Adams and John
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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.
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AncientPages.com - Christiaan Huygens was born in Hague on April 14, 1629. He was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, best known for his contributions to mathematics and physics.
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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
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AncientPages.com - On April 10-11, 1815, more than 13,000 feet high, Tambora Mount in Indonesia exploded killing about 92000 people and changed the global climate. Tambora’s powerful eruption made
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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
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AncientPages.com - On April 7, 451, Attila the Hun, who reigned 434-453 CE, captured and plundered the city of Metz - the Roman's stronghold. Without any opposition, he massacred the
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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
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AncientPages.com - Charlemagne was born on April 2, 742 in Northern Europe. He was also known as Charles the Great (in English), Karl der Grosse, (in German) and Carolus Magnus (in
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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
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AncientPages.com - On March 29, 1974, local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discovered the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor
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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
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AncientPages.com - On March 27, 1905, the brutal crime was solved using the newly developed fingerprinting technique. Fingerprint evidence taken from the cash box of a murder scene in
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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
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AncientPages.com - On March 25, 1655, Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch amateur astronomer, discovered Saturn's satellite Titan, named for its great size (half that of the Earth's) and thought to
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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
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AncientPages.com - On March 23, 1568, the Edict of Longjumeau was signed and ended the Second War of Religion (1567-68) and restored all the rights (important religious privileges and
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AncientPages.com - On March 22, 871, the Battle of Marton (or Meretum) was fought at a place recorded as Marton, possibly in Wiltshire or Dorset, England. Alfred the Great (849-899),
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AncientPages.com - On March 21, 1916, Frank James Marshall (1877-1944) played 105 boards simultaneously during an exhibition held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. It was a
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AncientPages.com - On March 20, 1916, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) submitted his “Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity” for publication in the journal ‘Annals of Physics’ (Annelen Der
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AncientPages.com - On March 19, 1697, Tsar Peter the Great left Moscow to travel to Western Europe. He was the first Tsar to leave his country in peacetime and ‘opened a
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AncientPages.com - On March 18 (or 19), 1314, Jacques de Molay, last grand master of the Knights Templars, an order of knighthood founded during the Crusades, was burned at the stake. Jacques de
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AncientPages.com - On March 17, 1880, Captain Lawrence "Titus" Oates, an English cavalry officer with the 6th Dragoons, and later an Antarctic explorer, was born in London. He died during
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AncientPages.com - On March 16, 1485, Anne Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, died mysteriously at the age of twenty eight years. Did tuberculosis cause
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AncientPages.com - On March 15, 44 BC., Roman Dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated, not in the Senate but in a meeting room adjacent to the Theatre of Pompey. The
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AncientPages.com - On March 14, 1757, John Byng, an admiral of the Royal Navy was executed by firing squad for neglect of duty. Byng was born on October 29, 1704, in
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