QuoteReplyTopic: Historical Events on this Day in History 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
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
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.
1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
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.
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
1762 – French HuguenotJean Calas, who had been 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.
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
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
2009 – Winnenden school shooting: 16 are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
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
1950 – The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
1993 – The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
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
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.
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.
Also, on March 15: 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 Shields1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields 1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution
1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1958 – The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
1995 – Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865.
2005 – Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.
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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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