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    Posted: 06-Mar-2012 at 23:03
March 6th - 1079-1900 AD
1079 - Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1205 - Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1323 - Treaty of Paris
1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.460 - Treaty of Alcacovas
1479 - Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.
1579 - Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1590 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1664 - King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1714 - Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
1728 - Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1816 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1882 - Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king

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March 7th 161-1900 AD
161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1138 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris.
1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1560 - Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
1573 - Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1621 - John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
1696 - English king Willem III departs Netherlands
1798 - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.
1799 - The Royal Institution is founded.
1808 - Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1814 - Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1848 - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1851 - Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1852 - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed
1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians

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Today, March 8th:
1658 - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1702 - England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1711 - Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
1722 - Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746 - Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
1754 - Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
1766 - Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces
1801 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1917 - Russian revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] (in Petrograd)
1920 - Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1942 - Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942 - KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1943 - 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
1943 - Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
1945 - 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1950 - Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
1957 - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1959 - Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
1963 - Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
1968 - Students demonstrate in Warsaw
1972 - 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
1979 - China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1995 - Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece
2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.


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9 March
1451  Amerigo Vespucci, Italian navigator, is born.
1617 The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops.
1734 The Russians take Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland.
1788 Connecticut becomes the 5th state.
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris, France.
1812 Swedish Pomerania is seized by Napoleon.
1820 Congress passes the Land Act, paving the way for westward expansion.
1839 The French Academy of Science announces the Daguerreotype photo process.
1841 The rebel slaves who seized a Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in 1839 are freed by the Supreme Court despite Spanish demands for extradition.
1862 The first and last battle between the ironclads U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia ends in a draw.
1864 General Ulysses Grant is appointed commander-in-chief of the Union forces.
1911 The funding for five new battleships is added to the British military defense budget.
1915 The Germans take Grondno on the Eastern Front.
1916 Mexican bandit Pancho Villa leads 1,500 horsemen on a raid of Columbus, N.M. killing 17 U.S. soldiers and citizens.

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Also on March 9th:
1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
1701 - France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1721 - English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1820 - -11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1834 - French Foreign Legion is founded.
1839 - Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1893 - Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1918 - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 - Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1923 - Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in NYC
1924 - South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
1932 - Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
1932 - Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1933 - Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1935 - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
1943 - Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1945 - Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
1946 - Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1946 - Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
1947 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1953 - Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1956 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
1959 - 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1962 - Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1962 - US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1979 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1983 - Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1989 - Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court

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Today, March 10th:
418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1526 - Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal
1535 - Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands
1578 - Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion
1624 - England declares war on Spain
1629 - King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1661 - French King Louis XIV ends office of premier
1762 - French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform
1801 - First census in Great Britain
1830 - The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1893 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
1900 - Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1902 - Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1905 - Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1905 - Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
1906 - Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1906 - London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)
1910 - China ends slavery
1945 - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945 - Japan declares Vietnam Independence
1945 - The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1960 - USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - Morocco adopts constitution


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Today, March 11:
1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
417 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
537 - Goths lay siege to Rome
843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople
928 - Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.
1502 - Tebriz] shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1563 - League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II
1567 - Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 - Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1795 - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
1872 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1919 - General strike in Germany, crushed
1926 - Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
1935 - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1938 - Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1942 - Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1943 - Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1945 - 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1963 - Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1965 - Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
1966 - Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
1968 - Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
1970 - Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Moslems hold 130 hostages in Wash DC
1981 - Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins

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Today, March 12:
1000 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1594 - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 - England routes troops to Amiens
1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 - Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1799 - Austria declares war on France
1848 - 2nd republic established in France
1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1868 - Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa
1868 - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1877 - British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1908 - The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
1917 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 - Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1919 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1925 - British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1934 - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
1941 - German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 - Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 - British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1957 - German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1967 - Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1971 - Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1975 - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 - South African troops leave Angola
1977 - Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1977 - Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2012 - 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
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13 Mar.
483 St. Felix begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
607 The 12th recorded passage of Halley's Comet occurs.
1519 Hernando Cortez lands in what will become Mexico.
1660 A statute is passed limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia.
1733 Joseph Priestly, scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen is born.
1777 Congress orders its European envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce the American army.
1781 Astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus, which he names 'Georgium Sidus,' in honor of King George III.
1793 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
1861 Jefferson Davis signs a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the Confederacy.
1868 The U.S. Senate begins the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.
1881 Czar Alexander II is assassinated when a bomb is thrown at him near his palace.
1915 The Germans repel a British Expeditionary Force attack at the battle of Neuve Chapelle in France.
1918 Women are scheduled to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men.
1935 A three-thousand-year-old archive is found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history.
1940 Finland capitulates conditionally to Soviet terms, but maintains its independence.
1941 Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the Soviet Union.
1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army.
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March 14:
1558 - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
1559 - Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Neth
1653 - Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
1689 - Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1734 - Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
1914 - Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1916 - Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
1923 - Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicia in Poland
1923 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
1926 - A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93.
1933 - Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
1939 - England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1939 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1941 - Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1946 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1948 - Freedom Train arrives in SF
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Comm Party
1955 - Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1957 - Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 - South Africa government disallows ANC
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1962 - Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1971 - South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1990 - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 - Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1994 - Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1997 - The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality.
2003 - Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
2005 - Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.



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15 March

44 BCE Julius Caesar is assassinated by high-ranking Roman Senators.
933 Henry the Fowler routs the raiding Magyars at Merseburg, Germany.
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
1767  Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States is born.
1778 Frenchman la Perouse sails east from Botany Bay for the last lap of his voyage around the world.
1820 Maine is admitted as the 23rd state.
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins four days of raids near the city of Gallatin, Tenn.
1864 The Red River Campaign begins as the Union forces reach Alexandria, La.
1892 New York State unveils the new automatic ballot voting machine.
1895 Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, appears before a judge for altering cattle brands.
1903 The British complete the conquest of Nigeria.
1904 Three hundred Russians are killed as the Japanese shell Port Arthur in Korea.
1909 Italy proposes a European conference on the Balkans.
1916 General John Pershing and his 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.
1934 Henry Ford restores the $5-a-day wage.

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493 - Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1382 - Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1391 - Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1560 - Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
1562 - General Francois de Guise enters Paris
1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on England
1889 - 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
1915 - Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
1923 - Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1926 - Belgium's "black monday," franc falls
1928 - Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1943 - Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1944 - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1946 - British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1951 - Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1957 - 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1961 - South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - Uprising in South Yemen
1974 - Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
1976 - Failed coup in Niger
1982 - Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
del & Actress Brooke Shields 1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution

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Today, March 16th
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1915 - Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1931 - Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1939 - Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1943 - Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed & sinks
1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1984 - South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1988 - North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.
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