On This Day in History for March 13
Events in History
- 483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 624 Battle of Badr: Muhammad's Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan army
- 1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
- 1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
- 1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
- 1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
- 1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccan army under Judar [Jawdar] defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
- More Events in History
Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo
Charles Grey
Percival Lowell
William J. Casey
Jamie DimonWeddings in History
- 1804 Economist Thomas Robert Malthus (38) weds Harriet Eckersall in Bath, Somerset
- 1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Alexander II
Benjamin Harrison
Susan B. Anthony
Breonna TaylorMarch in History
Coca-Cola Sold in Bottles
A glass bottle called a Hutchinson used by Joseph A. Biedenharn to bottle Coca-Cola
March 12, 1894
Earmuffs on, shhhh!
Chester Greenwood's 1877 patent for "ear-mufflers" and inset, Greenwood modeling his earmuffs
March 13, 1877
Battle of Ivry
King Henry IV of France at the Battle of Ivry
March 14, 1590
Nature Blows Gunboat Diplomacy Out of the Water
The world's superpowers were prepared to use the power of their warships to control the Samoan Islands in the 1880s. But nature had other ideas.
March 15, 1889