On This Day In History Archive

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

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

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

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 conspirators

AncientPages.com - On March 13, 1567, the Battle of Oosterweel was fought and was traditionally seen as the beginning of the Eighty Years' War or Dutch War of

AncientPages.com - On March 11, 1864, the Great Sheffield Flood occurred. The immediate cause was a crack in the dam, the cause of which was never determined. This

AncientPages.com - Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence on March 9, 1451. He was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer. He played a prominent role in exploring

AncientPages.com - On March 7, 321 AD., Emperor Constantine (ruled 306 – 337 AD) passed his famous national Sunday law. It was 'dies Solis'—the day of the sun,

AncientPages.com - On March 5, 1616, the Catholic Church banned Nicolaus Copernicus's book "On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres" (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium). Copernicus's conversation with God. Painting

AncientPages.com - On Mar 3, 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born. Bell was an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Bell

AncientPages.com - On March 1, 1854, Inman Line's SS City of Glasgow left Liverpool harbor bound for Philadelphia just like she had for the last four years. It had 480 onboard,

AncientPages.com - On February 27, 1595, King Henry IV was crowned and recognized as King of France. Henry IV was born on December 13, 1553, in southwest France.

AncientPages.com - On February 25, 1336, Pilenai, a hill fort in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was attacked by large Teutonic forces, who tried in vain to organize a

AncientPages.com - On February 23, 1455, Europe’s first mass-produced book - the Gutenberg Bible - was printed with movable type in Mainz, Germany.  The book was a Latin language Bible.