Events in History
- 1369 Battle of Montiel: Peter of Castile (Peter the Cruel) with support from England is defeated by an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II
- 1489 The last Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro is forced to abdicate by Venice
- 1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands
- 1590 Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion
- 1592 "Ultimate Pi day": on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)
- 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
- 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm
- 1689 Convention of the Estates of Scotland meets to decide on offering the Scottish Crown to William III and Mary Stuart or to James II of England
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Victor Emmanuel II
Albert Einstein
Frank Borman
Martin Dempsey
Danny MeyerWeddings in History
- 1850 French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine
- 1946 American "For Whom The Bell Tolls" novelist Ernest Hemingway (46) weds for fourth and final time to American journalist Mary Welsh (37), until his death in 1961
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Frederick Henry
Augustus FitzRoy
Karl Marx
George Eastman
Fannie Lou Hamer
Stephen HawkingMarch in History
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
Assassination of Julius Caesar
The Death of Caesar by Jean-Léon Gérôme
March 15, 44 BC
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