AncientPages.com – On May 22, 334 BC., Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. The battle took place in Northwestern Asia Minor, near the site of Troy. It was the first

AncientPages.com – On May 21, 1502, the island of Saint Helena was discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova. Located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Helena Island is well-known as the last residence of Napoleon Bonaparte during

AncientPages.com – On 20 May 1520, the Massacre in the Great Temple of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan took place as one of several incidents in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The Templo Mayor in Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. Image credit: Diego Rivera – TheSun.co.uk – https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NINTCHDBPICT000416684675.jpg. Public

AncientPages.com – On 19 May 1536, Anne Boleyn was led from her quarters to Tower Green, and a French swordsman granted her the ‘mercy’ of beheading. Anne was the first English Queen to be publicly executed. “Henry’s reconciliation with Anne Boleyn”,

AncientPages.com – On May 18, 1565, the Great Siege of Malta began, during which Ottoman forces attempted to conquer the islands but failed. The main events of the Great Siege on one painting. Image credit: Mattia Perez d’Aleccio – Grand hall of

AncientPages.com – On May 17, 1970, the reed boat Ra II, with Thor Heyerdahl, accompanied by an international crew, set sail from Safi, Morocco, on course for Barbados. Thor Heyerdahl’s raft Ra II (Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway). The reed is

AncientPages.com – On May 16, 1863, the Battle of Champion Hill was fought. It was the largest, bloodiest, and most significant action of Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign. Thirty-two thousand advancing Union soldiers met 23,000 Confederates in a fierce struggle for a vital

AncientPages.com – On May 15, 1836, Francis Baily, an English amateur astronomer, observed a celestial phenomenon known as Baily’s Beads. In May 1836, Baily traveled to Inch Bonney, Roxburghshire, in the Southern Uplands of Scotland – the first recorded eclipse expedition

AncientPages.com – On May 14, 1787, fifty-five State delegates from every state – except Rhode Island – met in Philadelphia to convene a Federal Convention (Constitutional Convention). The Philadelphia Convention adjourned on September 17, 1787. 38 of the 55 delegates signed

AncientPages.com – On 13 May 1568, the Battle of Langside was fought between the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, and those of the Earl of Moray, her half-brother. An oil painting of Mary, Queen of Scots escaping from Lochleven

AncientPages.com – On May 12, 1820, Florence  Nightingale, known as the Lady with the Lamp, was born. She was a great person, widely acknowledged as the pioneer of modern nursing; she was also a skilled mathematician. The Lady with the

AncientPages.com – On May 11, 868, the Diamond Sutra was published in northern China. This priceless religious teaching survives as the oldest dated, printed book. The manuscript was one of many other books of great value discovered in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. “Diamond Sutra”

AncientPages.com – On 10th May, 28 BC, astronomers observed a sunspot during the reign of Emperor Cheng of the Western Han Dynasty, describing it as a black vapor at its center, as large as a coin, and noted that at sunrise

AncientPages.com – Dante Alighieri was born in May (or June) 1265 in Florence, Italy. He was the Florentine writer, Italy’s national poet, best known for his epic poem La Commedia, later titled La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy). Engraving after the fresco in

AncientPages.com – On May 8, 1846, the first battle of the Mexican War was fought at Palo Alto. The Battle of Palo Alto was the first critical engagement of the Mexican-American War. The Mexican army was more significant than the

AncientPages.com – On May 7, 1832, the independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. In May 1832, Lord Palmerston, who took over as British Foreign Secretary and agreed to the Arta-Volos borderline, assembled the London Conference of 1832. “The