AncientPages.com – On April 10-11, 1815, more than 13,000 feet high, Tambora Mount in Indonesia exploded, killing about 92000 people and changing the global climate. Tambora’s powerful eruption made the global climate effects felt. The 1815 Mount Tambora eruption. The

AncientPages.com – On April 9, 1747, the Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, became the last man in Britain to be publicly beheaded at Tower Hill, London. The last ever beheading with an axe in the UK was that of the

AncientPages.com – On April 7, 451, Attila the Hun, who reigned 434-453 CE, captured and plundered the city of Metz – Roman’s stronghold. Without any opposition, he massacred the citizens and continued his new attacks on other cities in Gaul, today

AncientPages.com – On May 3, 752, Bird Jaguar IV (also called Yaxun B’alam IV) was a Mayan king from Yaxchilan (modern-day Chiapas), located on the banks of the river Usumacinta, in the west east of Mexico. Since 1882 there have been important

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 Latin). In the Cathedral of Moulins, France, end of the 15th century.

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 son of a Revolutionary War officer interested in mechanical things. Morey secured several conventional

AncientPages.com – On March 29, 1974, local farmers in Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China, discovered the Terracotta Army buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the third century BC. Pit one, which is 230 metres (750 ft) long

AncientPages.com – The brutal crime was solved on March 27, 1905, using the newly developed fingerprinting technique. Fingerprint evidence from the cash box of a murder scene in South London, England, led to the killer’s arrest. A court artists drawing

AncientPages.com – The first battle of Gaza took place on 26 March 1917. The main Turkish defensive position in southern Palestine centered on the city of Gaza. Officers of the regiment that successfully defended Gaza during the first battle. (on the background

AncientPages.com – On March 25, 1655, a Dutch amateur astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, discovered Saturn’s satellite Titan, named for its grand size (half that of the Earth’s) and thought to be the largest moon in our solar system thanks to its

AncientPages.com – On March 24, 1401, Turco-Mongol emperor Timur, known as Tamburlaine in English,  sacked Syria’s ancient and civilized town, Damascus, the second city of the Mameluke Empire. Left: Timur -Turco-Mongol Conqueror. Source ; Right: A Timurid-era illustration of Timur. In the early months of

AncientPages.com – On March 23, 1568, the Edict of Longjumeau was signed. It ended the Second War of Religion (1567-68) and restored all the Huguenots’ rights (necessary religious privileges and freedoms). It granted the Huguenots the right to worship in

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 world record, and Marshall was the first master to play over

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 Physik), one of the oldest scientific journals on physics and