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AncientPages.com - On December 6, 1214, King Alexander II was crowned at Scone. Scone is a village or suburb of Perth and Kinross in central Scotland. The medieval
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AncientPages.com - On December 5, 771, Charlemagne became the King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman. Charlemagne, son of King Pepin the Short, succeeded
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AncientPages.com - On December 4, 1154, the only pope to have been born in England and the first pope from the Anglosphere, who served from 1154 to 1159.
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AncientPages.com - On December 3, 1872, a translation from Babylonian cuneiform tablets of the Chaldean account of the deluge was read by George Smith (1840 - 1876), an English
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AncientPages.com - On December 2, 1594, Gerardus Mercator, the best-known mapmaker of all time, died. He was born on March 5, 1512, in Rupelmonde, Flanders (now Belgium). After
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AncientPages.com - On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks disobeyed an order to give up her seat in the black section of the bus to a white passenger. She
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AncientPages.com - One of the most famous murders of the Middle Ages took place on December 29, 1170, when four knights of King Henry II of England silently entered Canterbury Church
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AncientPages.com - On November 30, 1853, the Battle of Sinop (Sinope) took place at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when a squadron of Imperial Russian warships struck and defeated
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AncientPages.com - On November 29, 1929, U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd led the first expedition to fly over the South Pole. In the fall of 1928, Byrd and a
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AncientPages.com - On Nov. 28, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was later named The Strait of
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AncientPages.com - On November 26, 1476, Vlad III Dracula (1431-1476), ruler of Wallachia, returned from a decade-long exile to take the throne for the last time. The man
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AncientPages.com - On November 27, 1701, Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1701-1744), was born. He invented the centigrade (Celsius) temperature scale commonly used in Europe and founded
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AncientPages.com - On November 25, 885, the Vikings laid siege to Paris. The Siege of Paris of 885-86 was part of a Viking in the Kingdom of the West
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AncientPages.com - On November 24, 1996, Sorley MacLean, one of the most distinguished poets, died. Sorley MacLean, (in Gaelic: Somhairle Macgill-Eain) will be remembered as one of the greatest
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AncientPages.com - On November 23, 1889, the first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. It becomes a true overnight sensation, and its popularity spreads worldwide.
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AncientPages.com - On November 22, 1307, a Papal Bull, the so-called “Pastoralis Praeeminentiae” was issued by Pope Clement V to all Christian monarchs. Monarchs of Christendom were given
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AncientPages.com - If asked to think of a single individual who epitomises the decadence, destruction and debauchery of Ancient Rome, the name Nero would surely be on many people’s
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AncientPages.com - On November 21, 615, died Irish Saint Columbanus, who founded monasteries throughout France, Germany, and Italy. He was one of those many Irish missionaries who kept
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AncientPages.com - On November 20, 1739, the Battle of Porto Bello started. It was a historic naval battle between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement
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AncientPages.com - During archaeological excavation, carried out in the S. Francesco Monastery at Lucca (Tuscany, Italy), a golden, centuries-old dental prosthesis was discovered in an ancient family tomb. Researchers
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AncientPages.com - On November 19, 1703, "the man in the iron mask" died in the Bastille in Paris, France. He was buried under name "Marchioly," and his age was
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AncientPages.com - On November 18, 1477, English printer William Caxton printed the first book in England. It was his book, "Sayings of the Philosophers" (Dictes or Sayengis). Left:
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AncientPages.com - On November 17, 1810, Sweden declared war on its ally, the United Kingdom. On this day, the Anglo-Swedish War begins, but according to sources, no fighting
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AncientPages.com - On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro captured Atahualpa, the Last Emperor of the Inca Empire, in the town of Cajamarca, Peru. When he arrived in Cajamarca, the town
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AncientPages.com - On November 15, 1280, Albertus Magnus, known as Albert the Great or "Universal Doctor - died. He was born ca. 1200 and educated at the University
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AncientPages.com - On November 14, 1716, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a famous German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, died. Born on July 1, 1646, in Leipzig, Germany, Leibniz was
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AncientPages.com - On November 13, 1093, died Malcolm III, King of Scots from 1058 to 1093. He was nicknamed Canmore (in Scottish Gaelic: "Great Chief," Malcolm ruled for 35
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AncientPages.com - On November 12, 1035, King Canute (Cnut The Great) died, a Danish King of England and ruler of one of the largest Nordic empires. The Viking king had
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AncientPages.com - On November 11, 1805, the battle of Durnstein took place in the Wachau valley, on the river Danube, 73 kilometers (45 mi) upstream from Vienna, Austria. It
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