On This Day In History Archive

AncientPages.com - On September 22, 480 BC, the battle of Salamis in the Greco-Persian Wars was fought. The place of this encounter was located between the island of Salamis

AncientPages.com - On September 20, 1066, the Battle of Fulford, near York, Yorkshire (then capital of Northumbria), was fought. Saxon troops of Mercia and Northumbria were commanded by

AncientPages.com - On September 18, 53 AD, Roman Emperor Trajan was born in Spain. He was the Second of Five Good Emperors. Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus) was

AncientPages.com - On September 16, 307, died Severus II, a Western Roman Emperor from 306 to 307. After failing to besiege Rome, he fled to Ravenna. Historians believe that

AncientPages.com - On September 14, 1763, the Battle of Devil's Hole, also known as the Devil's Hole Massacre, was fought near Niagara Gorge in present-day New York state. The

AncientPages.com - On September 12, 490 BC, the Battle of Marathon was fought on the plain of Marathon. The battle between the Athenians and the Persians is one of history's

AncientPages.com - On September 10, 1547, the Battle of Pinkie was fought on the banks of the River Esk. In this battle, the Scots were defeated by the English,

AncientPages.com - On September 8, 1775, the Uprising of the Priests, also known as the Maltese Rebellion took place. Maltese clergy led it against the Order of Saint John, who

AncientPages.com - On Sep 6, 1522, one of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships–the Vittoria–finally arrived at Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, thus completing the world's first circumnavigation. Discovery of the

AncientPages.com - On September 4, 476, Emperor Romulus Augustus (461 - 476 AD) who ruled over the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer, the Germanic warlord.   Romulus

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 13ft (4m)  in diameter and was made of rubber-coated silk. The

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