1 May 1925
The Swedish archaeologist and art historian Ewart Wrangel was relating the political situation in Nicosia:
Now a week ago, the island was declared an English colony. This happened during a simple ceremony at the square in...
1 May 1610
The traveller George Sandys spoke of a custom in Cyprus whereby all young women, before getting married, sacrificed their virginity in the name of their goddess Venus, offering themselves to strangers. Cypriot women were regarded by foreigners...
1 May 1862
French architect Edmond Duthoit in a letter to his parents:
We saw at Peristerona quite a nice church with five domes preceded by a bridge of three arches on a waterless river but covered with pink laurels. The impression of this village...
1 May 1928
In a letter to his mother, Alfred Westholm of the Swedish Archaeological expedition to Cyprus describes his relaxing moments at Vouni:
After lunch, work at the excavation until 4, when we take afternoon tea...
2 May 1787
Dr John Sibthorp, respected English botanist, studied the flora and fauna of Cyprus in minute detail:
We left the village at six; the country now became more barren; the hills were covered with the Cistus creticus, from which they collect the Ladanum...
2 May 1881
E M Barry was enjoying the weather in Cyprus:
A very hot day. In the afternoon we had a jolly ride along the Famagusta road, we three and William King Harman. We had arranged to go and buy native silk, but postponed it ...
3 May 1821
Spyridon Trikoupis gives a brief account of the events which involved Cyprus during the Greek Revolution:
On May 3, 1821, four thousand soldiers arrived, and forthwith the Muteselim summoned to Levcosia the bishops...
3 May 1862
The French architect Edmond Duthoit describes his journey to Kykko monastery:
Here, terrible precipices with sharp naked rocks; there is everywhere the danger of being killed over and over again; but flowers everywhere. ...
4 May 1909
Frederic Carl Heidenstam, Swedish medical officer of Larnaca district, Chief Medical Officer of Cyprus, member of the Legislative Council, as well as Mayor of Larnaca, died on 4 May 1909. At the request of the Archbishop of Cyprus, the Legislative Council passed a...
5 May 1838
This is the day of St George in the old calendar. The American Missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease described the feast at St George the Near in Larnaca:
We did not arrive in time to see the liturgy, the removal of the picture...
6 May 1911
In Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi, a work attributed to the monk Benedict of Peterborough from Canterbury, we read about Richard the Lioneheart confronting Isaak Comnenus, Emperor of Cyprus:
On the same day (May 6) ...
7 May 1925
Swedish archaeologist and art historian Ewart Wrangel was joined by George Jeffery, the British antiquarian on a trip to Stavrovouni, the mountain of The Holy Cross:
On 7th May we sat in a comfortable car – Mr Jeffery...