AncientPages.com – On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th-century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the tomb (KV62) in the Valley of Kings near Cairo in Egypt. Carter and one of

AncientPages.com – On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 p.m., the USS Maine exploded, killing 260 men aboard. Public opinion in the United States, urged on by the yellow press, assumed that Spain was responsible for plotting the treachery. However, an

AncientPages.com – On February 14, 1779, James Cook was killed by a mob on the Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii). At the time, he was trying to take the local chief hostage to get the natives to return a stolen

AncientPages.com – On February 13, 1578,  Tycho Brahe first sketched the “Tychonic system,” a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System.  Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior, Amsterdam 1662, vol. 1. Creator:

AncientPages.com – On February 12, 712, Du Fu, titled “The Sage of Poetry,” was born in today’s Gong County in Henan Province, China. Fu was a great personality and today is considered one of the greatest poets of all time. He

AncientPages.com – On February 11, 660 AD, a memorable holiday was celebrated in Japan. The so-called National Foundation Day commemorates the nation’s creation and is also related to the formation of the imperial line by the first Japanese ruler, Jimmu. Detail

AncientPages.com – On February 10, 1355, the so-called St Scholastica Day Riot took place in Oxford, England. The students complained about the quality of the ale they were drinking, which led to assaults. Oxford. Image credit: WolfBlur – Pixabay The

AncientPages.com – On February 9, 1555, Master John Hooper, bishop of Worcester and Gloucester, is burnt at the stake to defend the gospel at Gloucester. The sheriff’s men were armed with clubs. John took one look at the weapons and said:

AncientPages.com – On the night of 8/9 February 1855, a strange phenomenon – the so-called ‘Devil’s Footprints’- occurred around the Exe Estuary in East Devon and South Devon, England. The trails of hoof-like marks appeared after heavy snowfall overnight in the snow, covering a total distance

AncientPages.com – In the early morning of February 7, 1920, in Irkutsk, Siberia, the Bolsheviks executed Aleksandr Kolchak, one of the leaders of the White Movement and the so-called Supreme Ruler of Russia. Before the October Revolution in 1917, Kolchak served

AncientPages.com – The Battle of San Domingo was fought on February 6, 1806, between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off the southern coast of the French-occupied San Domingo, the first colony in the New World and claimed

AncientPages.com – On February 5, 62 AD, Pompeii, an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, was at the epicenter of an earthquake. The earthquake was approximately 7.5 in magnitude and may have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD

AncientPages.com – On February 4, 960, an important political and historical event occurred in China. The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song initiated the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries. Born

AncientPages.com – On February 3, 1706, the Battle of Fraustadt was fought between Sweden, Saxony-Poland, and their Russian allies near Fraustadt (present-day Wschowa) on Poland’s western border. Thanksgiving after the victory of Fraustadt – Gustaf Cederström. Public Domain It was

AncientPages.com – On February 2, 1461, the battle was fought near Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire, at a site not far from the border with Wales. The young Edward, Earl of March (later Edward IV), head of the Yorkist faction, and