On This Day In History Archive

AncientPages.com - On September 3, 36 BC, the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, near Messina, Sicily, met in the naval Battle of Naulochus.

AncientPages.com - On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun. The German invasion of Poland was a primer

AncientPages.com - On August 30, 1400, Vlad II, Vlad Dracul ('Vlad the Dragon'), was born. He reigned from 1436 to 1442 and again from 1443 to 1447. He

AncientPages.com - On August 27, 1783, the first experimental hydrogen-filled balloon left Champs de Mars, Paris. The balloon had a diameter of 13ft (4m) and was made of

AncientPages.com  - On 25 August 1609, precisely 410 years ago today, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new invention, a telescope, an important instrument

AncientPages.com - On 22 August 1572, "Earl of Northumberland" Thomas Percy was executed because he was Catholic. Thomas Percy was a Catholic and lived when the Protestant Queen Elizabeth

AncentPages.com - On August 20, 1940, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was fatally stabbed by a pick of an ice axe in his skull. The next day Leon Trotsky

AncientPages.com - On August 18, 1227, Genghis Khan died during the siege of Ningxia. The cause of his death remains unknown and has been attributed to being slain in

AncientPages.com - On August 16, 1896, while camping near Rabbit Creek near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory, George Carmack reportedly spotted nuggets of gold in a

AncientPages.com - On August 14, 1720, the Spanish Villasur expedition was wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska. In June 1720, a Spanish military force

AncientPages.com - On August 12, 1990, the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to date was discovered and nicknamed “Sue”. The discoverer was the paleontologist Susan “Sue” Hendrickson. In the

AncientPages.com - On August 10, 1675, the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England, was laid. In 1675, King Charles II laid the foundation stone of

AncientPages.com - On August 8, 1220, the Battle of Lihula was fought between the invading Swedish army and Estonians to control a castle in Lihula, Estonia. The castle

AncientPages.com - On Aug 6, 1840,  Adolph Bandelier, a Swiss-American anthropologist famous for his studies of the American Indian cultures, was born. Bandelier was the first historian and

AncentPages.com - On August 4, 1181, a supernova was observed in the constellation Cassiopeia. Chinese and Japanese astronomers observed this supernova on August 4 and then on August