AncientPages.com – At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, French king Philip IV the Fair ordered the mass arrest of Knights Templar in the Kingdom of France. Even the Grand Master of the order, the famed Jacqes de Molay, was

AncientPages.com – On Sep 22, 480 BC the battle in the Greco-Persian Wars was fought. In this battle a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian

AncientPages.com – On Sep 21, 1780, General Benedict Arnold (1740 – 1801) committed treason. During the American Revolution, General Benedict Arnold (1740 – 1801) met with British Major John Andre and made a traitorous pact, giving to him plans to West

AncientPages.com – On September 20, 1066, the Battle of Fulford, near York, Yorkshire (then capital of Northumbria) was fought. Saxon troops of Mercia and Northumbria commanded by brothers Earl Edwin and Earl Morcar, met a Norse army under command of

AncientPages.com – On September 5, 394 AD – the Battle of the Frigidus, was fought along the Frigid River (probably Vipava, in the Alps). Theodosius I the Great, Roman emperor who established Christianity as the official religion and persecuted the

On Sep 4, 626 – Li Shimin, a founding father of the Tang Dynasty, a skilled Chinese politician, a master strategist and even an excellent calligrapher – assumed the throne over theTang dynasty of China. Li Shimin (598 AD—died 649

AncientPages.com – On September 3, 36 BC, the naval Battle of Naulochus was fought between the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, near Messina, Sicily. The rebel, Sextus Pompeius was defeated by Agrippa in this sea

Ancient Pages.com  – On the morning of 2 September 31 BC,  the fleets of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt met the fleet of Octavian leader just outside the Gulf of Actium in Greece. Antony’s ships were built mainly