On This Day In History Archive

AncientPages.com - On March 31, 1814, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, at the head of the Coalition Army, triumphantly marched into Paris, forcing Napoleon to abdicate a few

AncientPages.com - On March 28, 845, Paris was attacked by Vikings under the leadership of Ragnar Lodbrok, (nicknamed ‘Hairy Breeches’, referring to the animal-skin trousers that he wore. One

AncientPages.com - The Battle of the Rhyndacus was fought on 15 October 1211 between the forces of two of the main successor states of the Byzantine Empire, the

AncientPages.com - On Sep 23, 1459 - the first major battle in the English Wars of the Roses was at Blore Heath, two miles east of Market Drayton

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

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,

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,