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 620 miles north of the town of Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. Many scientists from Russia and abroad have proposed plausible explanations for the phenomenon, yet none has […]
AncientPages.com – On June 29, 1194, Sverre (Sverrir) Sigurdsson was crowned King of Norway. Sverre Sigurdsson (c. 1151-1202) was one of the best-known figures in the medieval history of Norway. According to sagas, he was born and grew up in the foster-father’s home, Bishop Roe, in the Faeroe Islands. Sverre (Sverrir) Sigurdsson – Public Domain
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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 the Northern War (1700–21) between Sweden and Russia. It was the crucial victory of Peter I, the Great of Russia, over Charles XII of Sweden in the
AncientPages.com—On June 27, 1743, King George of England and his armies defeated the French at Dettingen, Bavaria, Germany. The Battle of Dettingen is a highly significant victory for the British Army, being the only time in modern history that a British Army has been led into battle by a reigning monarch: King George II. King
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. Julian the Apostate was a prominent philosopher and author in Greek; he was also Roman Emperor from 361 to 363. Julian the Apostate presiding at a conference
AncientPages.com – On June 25, 1900, the Dunhuang manuscripts were discovered in one of the sealed caves of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. They are important religious and secular documents dating from the 5th to the early 11th centuries and contain historical and mathematical works, along with folk songs and dance. Manuscript of the Confucius Talks discovered in
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 the country at Melcombe Regis, what is now Weymouth, a seaside town in Dorset, England. Today, the devastating Black Death of the 14th century is considered the first example
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AncientPages.com – On June 23, 1314, the Battle of Bannockburn started. It was the first war of Scottish independence. Robert the Bruce, the guardian of Scotland, faced King Edward II at Bannockburn, near Stirling. Bruce crowned King of Scots; modern tableau at Edinburgh Castle. Image credit: Kim Traynor – CC BY-SA 3.0 Bruce had lost almost everything.
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 to find his elusive Northwest Passage to China through the frozen wastes. One of many speculative portraits of Henry Hudson, from Cyclopaedia of Universal History, 1885. Found,
AncientPages.com – On June 21, 1547, a large fire engulfed the city of Moscow, almost destroying the Kremlin and the capital. Rumors of witchcraft, riots and a new era of governance were all consequences of the fire that destroyed much of the city of Moscow on this terrible day. These consequences were much serious challenge for
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