1 April 1474

Queen Caterina Cornaro tried hard to control the men and conspiracies around her:
And on the first of April the below mentioned men were taken from the castle: the Abbot of Holy Cross and John Perivolo the archbishop’s ...
1 April 1838

The American missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease describes the hardships of the people of Larnaca:
Today distributed all that remained. Tomorrow I will finish. The Archimandrite requested me to see if there is no way to...
1 April 1877

Alexander Palma di Cesnola, serving as American consular agent for Paphos in 1873 and vice consul in 1876, visited Rizokarpasso for excavations in April 1877:
In April 1877, I returned to my country house, and extended my diggings...
1 April 1929

Swedish Archeologist Alfred Westholm wrote to his parents about his Easter escapades:
So, we arrived in the afternoon at Polis, where Erikos was just enjoying one of the expedition’s luckiest excavation days with wonderful Greek tombs...
2 April 1837

Medicine in the early nineteenth century was rather obscure. Mrs Pease was suffering from the phlegmasia dolen. She was treated as follows:
The reason for applying leaches to her bowels day before yesterday was ...
4 April 1806

A Catalan traveller disguised as Ali Bey el Abbassi, son of Othman Bey of Aleppo, was on his way to Mecca when he stopped in Cyprus. A romantic visitor, he wanted to see the Palace of the Queen, so he set off for Buffavento:
4 April 1838

The American missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease discussed schools in Larnaca:
People here ride on the hips of asses and mules rather than the back, which must be favourable to the animal as he is stronger there than...
5 April 1806

The Catalan traveler Badia y Leblich disguised as Ali Bey el Abbassi, on his way to Meccha, stopped in Cyprus and visited Idalium where he found nothing worthy of notice:
I left the capital at quarter past eight, and crossed the great plain...
5 April 1881

While describing the efforts to go through the streets of Nicosia, E.M.B gives a picture of the terrible state of the roads:
Down our narrow street filed a procession. First George and Kosti carrying the great baskets, Charlotte ...
5 April 1882

Colonel Donisthorpe Donne of the Cyprus Pioneer Corps was riding through the island inspecting the locust traps:
I was ordered to Morfu again a few days afterwards on Locust Inspection. After zig zagging across country...
8 April 1566

The author Ch. Fürer from Nuremberg described what he saw in the island of Cyprus:
The nobles are greatly given to amusement, especially hunting and hawking, and at certain seasons of the year, at Carnival especially, they...
8 April 1566

The author Ch. Fürer from Nuremberg spent most of April in Cyprus:
[Nicosia] is a city of some size and beauty, where lives an archbishop, whose annual income reaches the sum of 12,000 gold ducats, and most of the nobles of the island. ...