AncientPages.com – The brutal crime was solved on March 27, 1905, using the newly developed fingerprinting technique. Fingerprint evidence from the cash box of a murder scene in South London, England, led to the killer’s arrest. A court artists drawing

AncientPages.com – The first battle of Gaza took place on 26 March 1917. The main Turkish defensive position in southern Palestine centered on the city of Gaza. Officers of the regiment that successfully defended Gaza during the first battle. (on the background

AncientPages.com – On March 25, 1655, a Dutch amateur astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, discovered Saturn’s satellite Titan, named for its grand size (half that of the Earth’s) and thought to be the largest moon in our solar system thanks to its

AncientPages.com – On March 24, 1401, Turco-Mongol emperor Timur, known as Tamburlaine in English,  sacked Syria’s ancient and civilized town, Damascus, the second city of the Mameluke Empire. Left: Timur -Turco-Mongol Conqueror. Source ; Right: A Timurid-era illustration of Timur. In the early months of

AncientPages.com – On March 23, 1568, the Edict of Longjumeau was signed. It ended the Second War of Religion (1567-68) and restored all the Huguenots’ rights (necessary religious privileges and freedoms). It granted the Huguenots the right to worship in

AncientPages.com – On March 21, 1916, Frank James Marshall (1877-1944) played 105 boards simultaneously during an exhibition held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. It was a world record, and Marshall was the first master to play over

AncientPages.com – On March 20, 1916, Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) submitted his “Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity” for publication in the journal Annals of Physics’ (Annelen Der Physik), one of the oldest scientific journals on physics and

AncientPages.com – On March 19, 1697, Tsar Peter the Great left Moscow to travel to Western Europe. He was the first Tsar to leave his country in peacetime and ‘opened a window into Europe.’ Russia would never be the same on his return,

AncientPages.com – On March 18 (or 19), 1314, Jacques de Molay, the last grandmaster of the Knights Templars, an order of knighthood founded during the Crusades, was burned at stake. Jacques de Molay, born in 1243, failed to exercise effective leadership when the suppression

AncientPages.com – On March 17, 1880, Captain Lawrence “Titus” Oates, an English cavalry officer with the 6th Dragoons and later an Antarctic explorer, was born in London. He died during the Terra Nova Expedition on the same day in 1912. Antarctic explorers: standing, (L-R)

AncientPages.com – On March 16, 1485, Anne Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 16th  Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, died mysteriously at the age of twenty-eight. Did tuberculosis cause her death, or was she poisoned? Anne Neville spent most of