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 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
MessageToEagle.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
MessageToEagle.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
MessageToEagle.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
MessageTo Eagle.com – On March 18 (or 19), 1314, Jacques de Molay, last grand master of the Knights Templars, an order of knighthood founded during the Crusades, was burned at the stake.
MessageToEagle.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
MessageToEagle.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 years. Did tuberculosis
MessageToEagle.com – On March 15, 44 BC., Roman Dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated, not in the Senate but in a meeting room adjacent to the Theatre of Pompey. The
