On This Day in History for March 2
Events in History
- 1127 Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders
- 1458 Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
- 1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
- 1629 English King Charles I dissolves Parliament against opposition, imprisoning 9 members of parliament
- 1657 Great Fire of Meireki destroys 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo, killing an estimated 100,000 people
- 1675 Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel
- More Events in History
Sam Houston
Leo XIII
Pius XII
Dr. Seuss
Mikhail Gorbachev
Abdelaziz BouteflikaDivorces in History
- 1976 Second wife Carole Hoff divorces serial killer John Wayne Gacy (33) after 3 years of marriage
- 1993 Novelist Salman Rushdie (Satanic Verses) divorces Marianne Wiggins
More Weddings & Divorces in History
John Wesley
D. H. Lawrence
Thomas J. Walsh
Howard CarterMarch in History
Castle Bravo Nuclear Test
The explosion from Castle Bravo over Bikini Atoll in 1954
March 1, 1954
Battle of Cerro Corá
Death of Francisco Solano López by the River Aquidabán, during the Battle of Cerro Corá
March 1, 1870
Emancipation of the Serfs
Peasants Reading the Emancipation Manifesto, an 1873 painting by Grigory Myasoyedov
March 3, 1861
Woman Suffrage Procession
Inez Milholland at the head of the Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, DC
March 3, 1913