AncientPages.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 Hancock that the British troops were approaching to arrest them and

AncientPages.com – On April 17, 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) was recorded to have given the first presentation of his Canterbury Tales at the English royal court of Richard II. Left: Geoffrey Chaucer (17th century); Right: title page of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury

AncientPages.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. Huygens was the first to recognize the rings of Saturn, made

AncientPages.com – On April 13, 1598, Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes. It confirmed Roman Catholicism as the state religion while granting religious freedom to Protestants. Proclamation of the Edict of Nantes by Henry IV. Image source – Public

AncientPages.com – On April 10-11, 1815, more than 13,000 feet high, Tambora Mount in Indonesia exploded, killing about 92000 people and changing the global climate. Tambora’s powerful eruption made the global climate effects felt. The 1815 Mount Tambora eruption. The

AncientPages.com – On April 9, 1747, the Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, became the last man in Britain to be publicly beheaded at Tower Hill, London. The last ever beheading with an axe in the UK was that of the

AncientPages.com – On April 7, 451, Attila the Hun, who reigned 434-453 CE, captured and plundered the city of Metz – Roman’s stronghold. Without any opposition, he massacred the citizens and continued his new attacks on other cities in Gaul, today

AncientPages.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 the west east of Mexico. Since 1882 there have been important

AncientPages.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 (in Latin). In the Cathedral of Moulins, France, end of the 15th century.

AncientPages.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 son of a Revolutionary War officer interested in mechanical things. Morey secured several conventional

AncientPages.com – On March 29, 1974, local farmers in Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China, discovered the Terracotta Army buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the third century BC. Pit one, which is 230 metres (750 ft) long