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 traveller 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...
3 November 1815
The British traveller 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. He kept a diary of his experiences in Cyprus. He was the person who designed and enforced the uniformof the Cyprus Regiment:
3 November 1930
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 on Cyprus...
3 November 1958
From the diaries of 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 near Secretariat! Been here thirty years...
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...
6 November 1815
William Turner Esq., 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 passed through 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 on 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...
8 November 1878
Baroness Annie Allnott Brassey arrived with her yacht in Limassol:
Limassol, where we arrived at about 10.00 a.m. is a long low white town, stretching along the seashore, with domes and minarets interspersed among the houses....
9 November 1928
Alfiros, of the Swedish Cyprus Archaeological Expedition, in a letter to his mother:
The weather has until now been the most wonderful imaginable, but at a minor rain shower that came at the end of the last “downing” moon...