On This Day In History Archive

AncientPages.com - On June 30, 1908, at 7.17 am, the legendary and mysterious Tunguska explosion occurred in the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, located in Central Siberia approximately

AncientPages.com - On June 28, 1709, Peter the Great defeated Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle Of Poltava. The battle of Poltava was the turning point in

AncientPages.com - On June 26, 363, Roman Emperor Julian (also known as Julian the Apostate) died near Maranga, Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), aged 31, during a battle against the Sassanid army.

AncientPages.com - On June 24, 1348, the terrible Black Death arrived in Britain. The Black Death started in the Gobi Desert with a minor disease, Yersinia Pestis.  It first entered

AncientPages.com - On June 22, 1611, the crew of Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson. Two years earlier, in 1609, Captain Hudson sailed to the Americas

AncientPages.com - On June 20th, 1840, Samuel F.B. Morse (1791 – 1872) received a patent for the single-wire telegraph system. He was a co-developer of the Morse Code

AncientPages.com - On June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart flew from Newfoundland, Canada, to Wales. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon

AncientPages.com - On June 16, 1779, the Great Siege of Gibraltar began when Spain declared war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. This historical event was the most significant

AncientPages.com - On June 14, 1834, the first U.S. patent for a practical underwater diving suit was issued to Leonard Norcross of Dixfield, Maine. It is the first closed

AncientPages.com - On June 12, 1381, the first great popular rebellion in English history began and was known as the Peasants' Revolt or Wat Tyler's Rebellion. From the 1340s

AncientPages.com - On June 11, 323 BC, Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II of Macedon, died in Babylon after suffering ten days of high fever. Theories

AncientPages.com - On June 9, 68, Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide. He was the notoriously brutal Roman Emperor responsible for the Great Fire of Rome, the bloody persecution

AncientPages.com - On June 7, 1863, French troops under General François Achille Bazaine entered Mexico City. The main army entered the city three days later, led by a

AncientPages.com - On June 5, 70 CE, the Roman Siege of Jerusalem ended as rebel forces in the city were beaten. Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle

AncientPages.com - On June 3, 1853, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born at Charlton, near Greenwich, London, England. Sir Petrie was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who contributed

AncientPages.com - On June 1, 1676, a dramatic naval Battle of Öland was fought between the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea and an allied Danish-Dutch fleet. Just

AncientPages.com - On May 30, 1010, Emperor Renzong of Song was born. Emperor's name was Zhao Zhen, and he was the fourth emperor of the Song dynasty in

AncientPages.com - On 28 May 585 BC, a solar eclipse occurred, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales of Miletus (625 BC - 545 BC). Thales foretold a solar

AncientPages.com - On May 26, 1328, William of Ockham, a Franciscan Friar, secretly leaves Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII. According to others, he was

AncientPages.com - On May 24, 1798, the Irish Rebellion began against British rule. The United Irishmen led it. It eventually failed and resulted in 34 of its key

AncientPages.com - On May 22, 334 BC., the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. The battle took