Notable Historical Events on March 1st
March 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
752 |
Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women. |
86 |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus. |
BC AD | |
293 |
Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy |
317 |
Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares |
492 |
St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
492 |
St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
705 |
John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
743 |
Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited |
918 |
Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht |
1260 |
Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus |
1382 |
French Maillotin uprises against taxes |
1420 |
Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten |
1457 |
The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination. |
1562 |
Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder |
1565 |
Portuguese soldier Estácio de Sá founds the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
1587 |
English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower |
1591 |
Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French King Henri IV |
1593 |
The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. |
1628 |
Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date. |
1633 |
Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. |
1634 |
Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians |
1642 |
Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city |
1692 |
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrested for witchcraft (Salem, MA) |
1711 |
"The Spectator" begins publishing (London) |
1780 |
Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) |
1781 |
Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation |
1784 |
E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain |
1785 |
Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized |
1790 |
1st US census authorized |
1792 |
US Presidential Succession Act passed |
1796 |
1st National Meeting in the Hague |
1803 |
Ohio becomes 17th state |
1809 |
Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed |
1811 |
Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500 |
1811 |
French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel |
1815 |
Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law |
1840 |
Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France. |
1845 |
President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas |
1847 |
Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) |
1852 |
Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. |
1854 |
SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again |
1854 |
German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg. |
1859 |
Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd) |
1864 |
Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built) |
1864 |
Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree |
1866 |
Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana |
1867 |
Howard University, Washington DC, chartered |
1867 |
Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later) |
1869 |
Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time |
1871 |
J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia |
1872 |
Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park |
1873 |
E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter. |
1875 |
Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883 |
1876 |
Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington Conn) |
1878 |
First winter ascent of Aneto |
1879 |
Library of Hawaii founded |
1886 |
The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham. |
1890 |
1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published |
1893 |
Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador |
1896 |
Battle of Adwa: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians in Ethopia |
1896 |
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. |
1904 |
England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead v Australia |
1909 |
1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn |
1910 |
3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history |
1912 |
Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane |
1912 |
Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC |
1913 |
1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND |
1913 |
Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment) |
1914 |
Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum |
1914 |
The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union. |
1916 |
Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic |
1917 |
1st federal land bank chartered |
1917 |
U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. |
1919 |
Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin |
1919 |
March 1st Movement begins in Korea. |
1920 |
Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy |
1920 |
Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted |
1921 |
Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England |
1921 |
Rwanda ceded to Great Britain |
1921 |
Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia |
1923 |
Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker |
1924 |
Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted |
1927 |
Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank |
1928 |
Paul Whiteman & orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records |
1932 |
Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12 |
1932 |
12 pro-independence revolutionaries captured in and around Chittagong in Bengal province, British India are sentenced to deportation for life, two to three-year prison terms with the remaining 32 being acquitted. |
1932 |
The 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is kidnapped from their home in East Amwell, New Jersey in what became known as the "Lindbergh kidnapping" |
1933 |
Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks |
1934 |
Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria |
1934 |
Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1936 |
The Hoover Dam is completed. |
1936 |
A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union. |
1937 |
1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct) |
1937 |
Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles |
1937 |
US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day |
1939 |
Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94. |
1940 |
Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published |
1941 |
"Captain America" appears in a comic book |
1941 |
1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn |
1941 |
Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner |
1941 |
German troops invade Bulgaria |
1941 |
Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp |
1942 |
3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat |
1942 |
Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough |
1942 |
J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago |
1942 |
Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java |
1942 |
Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews |
1942 |
Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
1943 |
Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided |
1944 |
Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns |
1944 |
U-358 sinks in Atlantic |
1945 |
British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten |
1945 |
Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi |
1945 |
FDR announces success of Yalta Conference |
1945 |
Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander |
1945 |
US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach |
1946 |
British government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years |
1946 |
Panama accepts its new constitution |
1946 |
The Bank of England is nationalised. |
1947 |
International Monetary Fund begins operation |
1949 |
Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ |
1949 |
The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals |
1949 |
Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch. |
1950 |
Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa |
1950 |
Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) |
1950 |
USSR issues golden rubles |
1952 |
Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns |
1952 |
Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain |
1953 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
1953 |
KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins |
1953 |
WJZ-AM in NYC becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission |
1953 |
WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later. |
1954 |
4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US house of reps injuring 5 reps |
1954 |
In spring training, baseballer Ted Williams breaks his collarbone |
1954 |
Rebellion during visit of pres Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die |
1954 |
US explodes Castle Bravo, 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll - most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US |
1955 |
Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48 |
1955 |
KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
Pakistan v India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw |
1956 |
The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization. |
1957 |
"Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 perfs |
1957 |
KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor |
1958 |
Gary Sobers 365* v Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara |
1958 |
Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260 |
1958 |
West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl v Pakistan |
1958 |
Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia. |
1959 |
Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years |
1959 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament |
1961 |
Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall |
1961 |
President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp |
1962 |
American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95 |
1962 |
K-Mart opens |
1962 |
US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada |
1963 |
200,000 French mine workers strike |
1965 |
Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct |
1965 |
Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) |
1965 |
WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria |
1966 |
Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) |
1967 |
Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain |
1967 |
House of Reps expels Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116) |
1967 |
Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London |
1967 |
WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast |
1968 |
NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return |
1968 |
Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting |
1968 |
Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands |
1968 |
Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect |
1969 |
"Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 perfs |
1969 |
After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts |
1969 |
Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium |
1969 |
NY Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires |
1969 |
Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast |
1970 |
Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater |
1970 |
Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released |
1970 |
End of US coml whale hunting |
1970 |
Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election |
1970 |
White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain |
1971 |
Bomb attack on the Capitol in Wash DC |
1971 |
Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM |
1972 |
Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth" |
1972 |
David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones," premieres in NYC |
1972 |
KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points |
1972 |
Two Catholic teenagers were shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary while 'joy riding' in a stolen car in Belfast |
1973 |
Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens |
1973 |
Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race |
1974 |
George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November |
1974 |
Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership v NZ cricket at Wellington |
1974 |
Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides |
1975 |
17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win |
1975 |
Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 |
1975 |
Colour television transmissions begin in Australia. |
1977 |
Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards |
1977 |
US extends territorial waters to 200 miles |
1978 |
"Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances |
1978 |
Charlie Chaplin's coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery |
1979 |
"Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances |
1980 |
CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established |
1980 |
Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater |
1980 |
Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit |
1980 |
Snow falls in Florida |
1980 |
The US enacts the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act as part of a compromise between the Carter Administration and the Congress over the decontrol of crude oil prices |
1981 |
"Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 perfs |
1981 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic |
1981 |
Republican prisoners in the Maze began a second hunger strike; among the prisoners is Bobby Sands |
1982 |
5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees |
1982 |
5th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1982 |
NY Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents |
1982 |
Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data |
1983 |
Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup |
1983 |
Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people |
1984 |
Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear & #5943 Lovi |
1985 |
Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center |
1985 |
Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks |
1985 |
Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter |
1987 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1988 |
Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA |
1988 |
Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran |
1988 |
Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile |
1988 |
Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist |
1989 |
Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981 |
1989 |
Comet du Toit at perihelion |
1989 |
The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1990 |
Benin nullifies its constitution |
1990 |
Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay |
1990 |
Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. |
1991 |
US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens |
1992 |
"Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 perfs |
1992 |
"Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances |
1992 |
Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40) |
1992 |
Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle US record (54.48 secs) |
1993 |
Authorities near Waco, Texas negotiate with Branch Davidians |
1993 |
George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of NY Yankees |
1993 |
New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks |
1994 |
36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins |
1994 |
Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland |
1994 |
Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution |
1995 |
37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Phila, Sheryl Crow |
1995 |
Belgium ends military conscript |
1995 |
Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland |
1995 |
Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay |
1995 |
Part of Houston begins using new area code 281 |
1995 |
Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns |
1996 |
Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory |
1996 |
New toll-free 888 area code introduced |
1996 |
Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England |
1997 |
"Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC |
1997 |
5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV |
1998 |
"Art," opens at Royale Theater NYC |
1998 |
Australian Ladies Masters Golf |
2000 |
The Constitution of Finland is rewritten. |
2000 |
Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC. |
2002 |
The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€). |
2002 |
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. |
2002 |
The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons). |
2003 |
Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security. |
2003 |
17th Soul Train Music Awards: LL Cool J, Mariah Carey & Nelly win |
2004 |
Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. |
2004 |
Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq. |
2006 |
Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time. |
2006 |
English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station. |
2007 |
Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. |
2007 |
"Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots. |
2012 |
Euro zone unemployment reaches historical high of 10.7% |
2013 |
The 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect |
2013 |
14 people are killed in the Lahad Datu standoff between Malaysian government and rebel forces |
2014 |
34th Golden Raspberry Awards: Movie 43 wins |
2014 |
29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China |
2016 |
Navy SEAL who rescued American hostage awarded Medal of Honor |
2016 |
Obama to attend historic baseball game in Cuba |
2016 |
Trump rivals call for release of NY Times editorial board tape |
2016 |
NATO chief says concerned about Russian military build-up in Syria |
2016 |
Leonardo DiCaprio wins best actor Oscar for 'The Revenant' |
2017 |
Obamas Make Book Deal With Penguin Random House |
2017 |
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross wore $500 slippers to Trump's address |
2018 |
Walmart joins Dick's Sporting Goods in raising age to buy guns |
2018 |
In blow to Trump, top aide Hope Hicks to leave White House |
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