AncientPages.com – On 19 February 197, the Battle of Lugdunum was fought between the armies of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and of the Roman usurper Clodius Albinus. Severus refused to share power with Albinus, who simply wished to be named heir and had

AncientPages.com – On February 18, 1478, George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, who conspired against his brother, Edward IV, during the Wars of the Roses,  was convicted of treason and executed in private at the Tower of London. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed. Vol

AncientPages.com – On February 17/18, 1370, the Teutonic Knights fought the army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and won. This military encounter is known in history as the Battle of Rudau. Lithuania suffered significant losses. Historical map of the Religious State

AncientPages.com – On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the thirteenth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC. The tomb of King Tutankhamun, located about 562 km

AncientPages.com – On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th-century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the tomb (KV62) in the Valley of Kings near Cairo in Egypt. Carter and one of

AncientPages.com – On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 p.m., the USS Maine exploded, killing 260 men aboard. Public opinion in the United States, urged on by the yellow press, assumed that Spain was responsible for plotting the treachery. However, an

AncientPages.com – On February 14, 1779, James Cook was killed by a mob on the Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii). At the time, he was trying to take the local chief hostage to get the natives to return a stolen

AncientPages.com – On February 13, 1578,  Tycho Brahe first sketched the “Tychonic system,” a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System.  Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior, Amsterdam 1662, vol. 1. Creator:

AncientPages.com – On February 12, 712, Du Fu, titled “The Sage of Poetry,” was born in today’s Gong County in Henan Province, China. Fu was a great personality and today is considered one of the greatest poets of all time. He

AncientPages.com – On February 11, 660 AD, a memorable holiday was celebrated in Japan. The so-called National Foundation Day commemorates the nation’s creation and is also related to the formation of the imperial line by the first Japanese ruler, Jimmu. Detail

AncientPages.com – On February 10, 1355, the so-called St Scholastica Day Riot took place in Oxford, England. The students complained about the quality of the ale they were drinking, which led to assaults. Oxford. Image credit: WolfBlur – Pixabay The

AncientPages.com – On February 9, 1555, Master John Hooper, bishop of Worcester and Gloucester, is burnt at the stake to defend the gospel at Gloucester. The sheriff’s men were armed with clubs. John took one look at the weapons and said: