MessageToEagle.com – On May 12, 1820,‘Lady with the Lamp’ – Florence Nightingale was born. She was a great person, widely acknowledged as the pioneer of modern nursing; she was also a proficient mathematician.
MessageToEagle.com – On May 11, 868, the Diamond Sutra was published in northern China. This priceless religious teaching survives as the oldest dated, printed book. The manuscript was one of many discovered in the
MessageToEagle.com – On 10th May, 28 BC, a sunspot was observed by astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of of theWestern Han Dynasty. China is among the earliest
MessageToEagle.com – On May 9 (or about this day), 1265, Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy. He was the Florentine writer, Italy’s national poet, best known for his epic
MessageToEagle.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 major engagement of
MessageToEagle.com – On May 7, 1832, the independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. In May 1832, Lord Palmerston, who took over as British Foreign Secretary and
MessageToEagle.com – On May 6, 1527, Rome suffered the worst assault that it had ever known, far worse than anything at the time of the barbarian migrations. Spanish successes
MessageToEagle.com – On May 5, 1821 – Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte – whose empire covered all of Europe – dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the
MessageTo Eagle.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
MessageToEagle.com – On May 3, 752, Bird Jaguar IV (also called Yaxun B’alam IV) was a Mayan king from Yaxchilan (modern-day Chiapas), located on the banks of the river Usumacinta, in
MessageToEagle.com – On May 2, 1611, the King James Bible was published for the first time and it was England’s authorized version of the Bible translated from the original
MessageToEagle.com – When the object we now call SN 1006 first appeared on May 1, 1006 AD, it was far brighter than Venus and visible during the daytime for
MessageToEagle.com – Walpurgis Night, a traditional holiday celebrated on April 30 in northern Europe and Scandinavia. In Sweden typical holiday activities include the singing of traditional spring folk songs
MessageToEagle.com – On April 29th 1429, Joan of Arc, the 17-year-old French peasant entered Orleans, the city besieged by the English. This mostly unusual historical event took place during the
MessageToEagle.com – On April 28, 1939, Soviet pilots Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhail Gordienko took off on a mission to fly between Moscow and America in the shortest possible time.
MessageToEagle.com – On April 27, 1124, following the death of his brother Alexander, David I (Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim) made himself king of Scotland with the backing of Henry
MessageToEagle.com – On April 26, 1900, seismologist Charles Richter was born near Hamilton, Ohio, USA. He graduated from the University of Southern California and then enrolled in graduate school
MessageToEagle.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.
MessageToEagle.com – Most probably, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare, was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. In fact, very little is known about his life and
MessageToEagle.com – On April 22, in 1509, Henry VIII took the crown as the ruler of all England. Henry VIII is best known for his six wives, whose fate
MessageToEagle.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
MessageToEagle.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)
MessageToEagle.com – On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia Cook was born in north-east England in 1728, and in his late
MessageToEagle.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
MessageToEagle.com – On April 17, 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) was recorded to have given the first presentation of his Canterbury Tales at the royal English court of Richard II.
