1 November 1836
American missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease was very interested in education and worked hard for the establishments of schools in Cyprus:
Last week a merchant of Nicosia sent to Mr Pierides for 30 copies...
2 November 1815
The British diplomat William Turner noted in his journal:
November 2. Therm. 79°. I walked down to the Marina in the morning to look after an opportunity for Rhodes. I found there was only one ship going, a Turkish one...
2 November 1934
Rupert Gunnis, ADC to Sir Ronald Storrs, devoted much of his spare time to encouraging students to become Boy Scouts:
Amazed to receive a cheque of £2000 from Dolly’s lawyers. I had no idea she had left me anything. ...
3 November 1815
The British diplomat William Turner noted in his journal:
At eight we entered Nicosia, where, as I had nothing new to see and the female part of the party was very tired, we stopped indoors the rest of the day, except a visit we paid in the evening ...
3 November 1880
The Victorian officer Lt Benjamin Alsop Donisthorpe Donne was Commissioner of Limassol in 1880-82 during which time he kept a diary of his experiences. He was the person who designed and enforced the uniform of the Cyprus Regiment:
3 November 1930
The Swedish achaeologist Alfred Westholm described a Cypriot wedding in Larnaca:
The same day that I wrote my last letter we all drove down to Larnaca where Pierides married off his niece. It was one of the biggest events in memory...
3 November 1958
From the diaries of US Consul General Taylor Belcher and Edith Belcher:
Light lunch alone- Toby off with Phrydas. News said a seventy-year-old Englishman, Charles Woods, killed this morning while waiting for a bus...
4 November 1815
William Turner of the British Embassy in Constantinople toured the bazaars and talked to locals:
Therm 80⁰. In the morning we strolled about and paid visits to two or three Greeks. One of these was an old fellow...
5 November 1927
Rupert Gunnis, ADC to Sir Ronald Storrs, accompanied his High Commissioner:
With the HE down of the unveiling of Khaimal Pasha’s memorial at the Arab Ahmet mosque. HE made a very good speech. ...
6 November 1815
William Turner, attached to the British Embassy at Constantinople, spent a few months in Cyprus which he recorded in detail:
At half past four we left Nicosia to sleep at a convent two hours off. These two hours we rode over a fine plain...
7 November 1815
William Turner, from the British Embassy in Constantinople, while visiting Cyprus visited the annex of Kykko monastery in Nicosia and wrote:
In the morning we attended church, which, though small, is...
8 November 1488
The Dominican monk Felix Faber wrote about leaving Cyprus from the harbour of Paphos:
We remained in the harbour of Paphus up to the hour of vespers, when we lifted our ancor nd left the port; but the wind was contrary and we beat...