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

AncientPages.com - The city of Rome had not been sacked for several centuries, but on May 6, 1527, it suffered the worst assault it had ever known, far

AncientPages.com - One of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses took place on May 4, 1471. It was the Battle of Tewkesbury, a historic riverside town in Gloucestershire. The

AncientPages.com - On May 2, 1611, the King James Bible was published for the first time. It was England's authorized version of the Bible, translated from the original

AncientPages.com - Walpurgis Night is a traditional holiday celebrated on April 30 in northern Europe and Scandinavia. This holiday symbolizes spring and has very ancient roots. It came to

AncientPages.com - On April 29, 1429, Joan of Arc, the 17-year-old French peasant, entered Orleans, the city besieged by the English. This most unusual historical event occurred during

AncientPages.com - The Vikings were accomplished navigators, artisans, traders and story tellers, but their greatest triumph was the ship they built. Draken Harald, the largest Viking ship built in

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have begun digging up two Roman baths hidden in a passageway below the city of Bath, in the south-west of England. Archaeologists believe one of the baths

AncientPages.com - On April 25, 1507, Martin Waldseemüller (ca. 1470-ca. 1518) was the first to suggest that the newly discovered landmass in the New World should be called America.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A skeleton lying down with a jorum in his hand and a wine pitcher and bread on the side, is depicted on a

AncientPages.com - Recent discovery of surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolia, Turkey indicates that the ancient city

AncientPages.com - April 21, 753 BC, is a mythological date when Rome is founded by Romulus, one of the twin brothers. In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother Remus

AncientPages.com - On April 20, 1535, an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as the "Sun Dog" was observed over Stockholm. The painting that depicts the event was named "Weather Sun") (in Swedish: Vädersol)  and

AncientPages.com - Well-preserved human skeletons estimated to be about 4,500-years-old have been unearthed from a graveyard in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to the archaeological team working in the

AncientPages.com - On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Sam Adams and John