MessageToEagle.com – On April 16, 1457 BC (other source propose May 9), the Battle of Megiddo took place during a rebellion against Pharaoh Thutmose III. On one side, there
MessageToEagle.com – The Battle of Rain (also called the Battle of the River Lech or Battle of Lech) was fought on April 15, 1632, during Thirty Years’ War. The forces involved in this encounter
MessageToEagle.com – Christiaan Huygens was born in Hague on April 14, 1629. He was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, best known for his contributions to mathematics and physics.
MessageToEagle.com – On April 13, 1598, Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes. It confirmed Roman Catholicism as the state religion and at the same time, it
MessageToEagle.com – On April 12, 238 AD, Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the forces of Numidia, an Ancient Berber kingdom in what is now Algeria and a
MessageToEagle.com – On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and is banished to the Mediterranean
MessageToEagle.com – On April 10-11, 1815, more than 13,000 feet high, Tambora Mount in Indonesia exploded killing about 92000 people and changed the global climate. Tambora’s powerful eruption made
MessageToEagle.com – On April 9, 1747, the Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, becomes the last man in Britain to be publicly beheaded at Tower Hill, London. The
MessageToEagle.com – On April 8, 1820, the Greek farmer Yorgos Kentrotas stumbled across a damaged statue inside a buried niche within the ancient city ruins of Milos, the current village
MessageToEagle.com – On April 7, 451, Attila the Hun, who reigned 434-453 CE, captured and plundered the city of Metz – the Roman’s stronghold. Without any opposition, he massacred the
MessageToEagle.com – On April 6, 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was drafted and sent, in the form of a letter to Pope John XXII. The document written in Latin,
MessageToEagle.com – On April 5, 1242, the famous “Battle on the Ice” was fought on Lake Peipus between the Teutonic and Livonian Knights, and the army of the Russian city of
MessageToEagle.com – On April 4, 1581, Francis Drake was knighted after completing his circumnavigation of the world. Queen Elizabeth herself knighted him. He is documented as the second person
MessageToEagle.com – On April 3, 686, Maya king Yuknoom Ixquiac (Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’) – “Jaguar Paw Smoke” assumes the crown of Calakmul, now a Maya archaeological site in the
MessageToEagle.com – Charlemagne was born on April 2, 742 in Northern Europe. He was also known as Charles the Great (in English), Karl der Grosse, (in German) and Carolus Magnus
MessageToEagle.com – On April 1, 1826, American Samuel Morey patented his “Gas or Vapor Engine” — the first internal combustion engine patent in the United States. Morey was the
MessageToEagle.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 days later. The
MessageToEagle.com – On 30 March 240 BC, the first recorded passage of Halley’s Comet was observed by Chinese astronomers in the Chinese chronicle ‘Records of the Grand Historian’ (or
MessageToEagle.com – On March 29, 1974, local farmers in Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China, discovered the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor
MessageToEagle.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
MessageToEagle.com – On March 27, 1905, the brutal crime was solved using the newly developed fingerprinting technique. Fingerprint evidence taken from the cash box of a murder scene in
MessageToEagle.com – The first battle of Gaza took place on 26 March 1917. The city of Gaza was the center of the main Turkish defensive position in southern Palestine. The first
MessageToEagle.com – On March 25, 1655, Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch amateur astronomer, discovered Saturn’s satellite Titan, named for its great size (half that of the Earth’s) and thought to
MessageToEagle.com – On March 24, 1401, Turco-Mongol emperor Timur, who in English became known as Tamburlaine, sacked the ancient and civilized town of Syria – Damascus, the second city of
MessageToEagle.com – On March 23, 2001, the Russian space station “Mir” ceased to exist. After floating in space for 15 years, Russian mission control fired engines on a rocket
