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Date | Event |
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Mar 20, 141 |
6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
Mar 20, 1345 |
Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic" |
Mar 20, 1525 |
Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants |
Mar 20, 1569 |
Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé |
Mar 20, 1598 |
French King Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty |
Mar 20, 1600 |
The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. |
Mar 20, 1602 |
United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms |
Mar 20, 1616 |
Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana |
Mar 20, 1627 |
France & Spain sign accord for fighting protestantism |
Mar 20, 1697 |
Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land" |
Mar 20, 1739 |
Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. |
Mar 20, 1760 |
Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings |
Mar 20, 1800 |
French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo |
Mar 20, 1800 |
Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London |
Mar 20, 1814 |
Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands |
Mar 20, 1815 |
Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule |
Mar 20, 1816 |
US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions |
Mar 20, 1833 |
US & Siam sign commercial treaty |
Mar 20, 1852 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) |
Mar 20, 1861 |
An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina. |
Mar 20, 1863 |
Battle of Pensacola FL -evacuated by Federals |
Mar 20, 1865 |
2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC |
Mar 20, 1865 |
Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives |
Mar 20, 1868 |
Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville, Kentucky, of $14,000 |
Mar 20, 1883 |
Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property |
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