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Events
363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church.
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1821 – President Monroe is the first to be inaugurated on March 5th, because the 4th fell on a Sunday.
1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1853 – The piano company Steinway & Sons is founded by Henry Steinway in New York City.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1936 – First flight of Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1940 – Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoşani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 – Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri, warning of the dangers of communism.
1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
1963: Country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins die in the crash of their plane, a Piper Comanche, near Camden, Tenn., along with pilot Randy Hughes, who was Cline’s manager.
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
1984 – Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1998 – 1998 Winter Paralympics, the first Winter Paralympics to be held outside Europe, takes place in Nagano, Japan.
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2012 – Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony campaign with the release of Kony 2012.
2012 – At least two people are killed and six injured after a shooting in a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.
2013 – First winter ascent of Broad Peak by Maciej Berbeka, Adam Bielecki, Artur Małek and Tomasz Kowalski.
Translation of the relics (1463) of St. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl (1299),
and his children Saints David (1321) and Constantine (ca. 1322)
Repose of Metropolitan Cornelius of Novgorod (1698)
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
1984 – Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1998 – 1998 Winter Paralympics, the first Winter Paralympics to be held outside Europe, takes place in Nagano, Japan.
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2012 – Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony campaign with the release of Kony 2012.
2012 – At least two people are killed and six injured after a shooting in a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.
2013 – First winter ascent of Broad Peak by Maciej Berbeka, Adam Bielecki, Artur Małek and Tomasz Kowalski.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Ciarán of Saigir
John Joseph of the Cross
Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea
Thietmar of Minden
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st c.)
Martyr Nestor, father of Martyr Conon of Isauria
Martyr Onisius (Onesimus) of Isauria, by beheading (1st c.)
Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (200)
Martyr Conon the Gardener, of Pamphylia (251)
Martyrs Archelaus, Kyrillos, Photios, Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Antinoë,
and 152 Martyrs in Egypt (ca. 308)
Venerable Conon of Cyprus (4th c.)
Martyr Eulogius of Palestine
Martyr Eulampius of Palestine, by the sword
Venerable Mark the Ascetic of Egypt (Mark the Athenian, Mark the Faster) (5th c.)
Saint Hesychius the Faster, of Bithynia (790)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Oliva of Brescia, martyred in Brescia in the north of Italy, under the
Emperor Hadrian (138)
Saint Eusebius, born in Cremona in Italy, he became an abbot in Bethlehem
and took part in the struggle against Origenism
Saint Eusebius and Companions, a group of ten martyrs who suffered in North Africa
Saint Piran (Pyran, Kerrian), monk of Perranporth (c. 480)
Saint Colman of Armagh, a disciple of St Patrick in Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Kieran of Saighir (Ciaran, Sen-Chiaráin = the Elder Ciarán), Munster (c. 530)
Saint Carthage the Elder, the successor of St Kieran as Bishop of Ossory
in Ireland (ca. 540)
Saint Caron, the church at Tregaron in Dyfed in Wales is dedicated to him
Saint Virgilius of Arles, Archbishop of Arles (610)
Saint Clement, Abbot of Santa Lucia in Syracuse in Sicily (ca. 800)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saints Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl
Monk-martyr Adrian, Abbot of Poshekhonye (1550), and his fellow-ascetic
St. Leonidas (1549)
New Martyr John the Bulgarian, at Constantinople (1784)
New Hieromartyr Parthenius, Bishop of Didymoteichon in Thrace (1805)
New Martyr George of Rapsana, at Larissa (1818)
Saint Nikolai (Velimirovich), Bishop of Ohrid and Žiča, Serbia (1956)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pokrovsky (1919)
New Hieromartyr John Mirotvortsiev (1938)
New Hieromartyr Theophan (Grafov), Hierodeacon, of Borisoglebsk Monastery
(Vladimir) (1938)
New Hieromartyr Mardarius (Isaev), Hieromonk, of Yurievskoe (Yaroslavl), (1938)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Mother of God "the Teacher" (or "Education" or "Nurtured Up-Bringing")Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Ciarán of Saigir
John Joseph of the Cross
Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea
Thietmar of Minden
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st c.)
Martyr Nestor, father of Martyr Conon of Isauria
Martyr Onisius (Onesimus) of Isauria, by beheading (1st c.)
Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (200)
Martyr Conon the Gardener, of Pamphylia (251)
Martyrs Archelaus, Kyrillos, Photios, Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Antinoë,
and 152 Martyrs in Egypt (ca. 308)
Venerable Conon of Cyprus (4th c.)
Martyr Eulogius of Palestine
Martyr Eulampius of Palestine, by the sword
Venerable Mark the Ascetic of Egypt (Mark the Athenian, Mark the Faster) (5th c.)
Saint Hesychius the Faster, of Bithynia (790)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Oliva of Brescia, martyred in Brescia in the north of Italy, under the
Emperor Hadrian (138)
Saint Eusebius, born in Cremona in Italy, he became an abbot in Bethlehem
and took part in the struggle against Origenism
Saint Eusebius and Companions, a group of ten martyrs who suffered in North Africa
Saint Piran (Pyran, Kerrian), monk of Perranporth (c. 480)
Saint Colman of Armagh, a disciple of St Patrick in Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Kieran of Saighir (Ciaran, Sen-Chiaráin = the Elder Ciarán), Munster (c. 530)
Saint Carthage the Elder, the successor of St Kieran as Bishop of Ossory
in Ireland (ca. 540)
Saint Caron, the church at Tregaron in Dyfed in Wales is dedicated to him
Saint Virgilius of Arles, Archbishop of Arles (610)
Saint Clement, Abbot of Santa Lucia in Syracuse in Sicily (ca. 800)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saints Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl
Monk-martyr Adrian, Abbot of Poshekhonye (1550), and his fellow-ascetic
St. Leonidas (1549)
New Martyr John the Bulgarian, at Constantinople (1784)
New Hieromartyr Parthenius, Bishop of Didymoteichon in Thrace (1805)
New Martyr George of Rapsana, at Larissa (1818)
Saint Nikolai (Velimirovich), Bishop of Ohrid and Žiča, Serbia (1956)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pokrovsky (1919)
New Hieromartyr John Mirotvortsiev (1938)
New Hieromartyr Theophan (Grafov), Hierodeacon, of Borisoglebsk Monastery
(Vladimir) (1938)
New Hieromartyr Mardarius (Isaev), Hieromonk, of Yurievskoe (Yaroslavl), (1938)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics (1463) of St. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl (1299),
and his children Saints David (1321) and Constantine (ca. 1322)
Repose of Metropolitan Cornelius of Novgorod (1698)
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