597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.
455 – Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).
934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1244 – Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur.
1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, reached the island of Homonhon, in the Philippines, with 150 crew. Members of his expedition became the first Spaniards to reach the Philippine archipelago, but were not the first Europeans. He landed with three small ships, Concepcion, Trinidad and Victoria and called the place the Arcigelago de San Lazaro since it was the feast day of Saint Lazarus of Bethany.
1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
1802 – Congress authorized the establishment of the first military school, the United States Military Academy, for the purpose of educating and training young men in the theory and practice of military science. Located at West Point, New York, the U.S. Military Academy is often simply known as West Point. President Thomas Jefferson was authorized to "organize and establish a Corps of Engineers ... that the said corps ... shall be stationed at West Point in the State of New York and shall constitute a military academy." The first class began on 4 July 1802 and Jonathan Williams served as the first Superintendent. Until 1866, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy was always an engineer officer. During the first half of the 19th century, West Point was the major and, for a while, the only engineering school in the country.
1812 – Siege of Badajoz begins: British and Portuguese forces under General Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington), besieged Badajoz, Spain, and forced the surrender of the French garrison during the Peninsular War,
1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1818 – In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
1861 – Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1864 – American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough (or Averasboro): The army of Union General William T. Sherman encountered its most significant resistance as it was moving north through the Carolinas on its way to join General Ulysses Grant's army at Petersburg, Virginia. Confederate General William Hardee tried to block one wing of Sherman's force, commanded by Henry Slocum, but the Rebel force was swept aside at Averasboro, North Carolina, as Confederate forces suffered irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1870 – The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1894 – Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1903: Roy Bean, the self-proclaimed "law west of the Pecos," died in Langtry, Texas.
1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left his tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1916: Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the man largely responsible for the buildup of the German navy in the years before World War I and the aggressive naval strategy pursued by Germany during the first two years of the war, tendered his resignation to Kaiser Wilhelm II, who—somewhat to Tirpitz's surprise—accepted it.
1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
1926 – Robert H. Goddard successfully launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket traveled for 2.5 seconds at a speed of about 60 mph, reaching an altitude of 41 feet and landing 184 feet away. The rocket was 10 feet tall, constructed out of thin pipes, and was fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline.
1930 – The USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, begins a three-year, 90 port tour of the nation.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1936 – Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and lead to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1939 – Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: The west Pacific volcanic island of Iwo Jima was declared secured by the U.S. military after months of fiercely fighting its Japanese defenders, but small pockets of resistance persisted.
1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, a Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1968 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre: A platoon of American soldiers brutally kill between 347 and 500 unarmed civilians (men, women, and children) at My Lai, one of a cluster of small villages located near the northern coast of South Vietnam.
1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, an Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
1975: The withdrawal from Pleiku and Kontum began as thousands of civilians joined soldiers streaming down Route 7B toward the sea
1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. Although the 68 million gallons of oil that spilled from the Cadiz has since been exceeded by other spills, this remains the largest shipwreck in history.
1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
1980 – Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing.
1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
1985 – Islamic militants kidnapped American journalist Terry Anderson in Beirut, Lebanon, and took him to the southern suburbs of the war-torn city, where other Western hostages were being held in scattered dungeons under ruined buildings. Before his abduction, Anderson covered the Lebanese Civil War for The Associated Press (AP) and also served as the AP's Beirut bureau chief. On December 4, 1991, Anderson's Hezbollah captors finally released him after 2,455 days.
1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988: As part of his continuing effort to put pressure on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, President Ronald Reagan ordered over 3,000 U.S. troops to Honduras, claiming that Nicaraguan soldiers had crossed its borders. As with so many of the other actions taken against Nicaragua during the Reagan years, the result was only more confusion and criticism.
1988 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
2003 – Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988: As part of his continuing effort to put pressure on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, President Ronald Reagan ordered over 3,000 U.S. troops to Honduras, claiming that Nicaraguan soldiers had crossed its borders. As with so many of the other actions taken against Nicaragua during the Reagan years, the result was only more confusion and criticism.
1988 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
2003 – Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Abbán
Heribert of Cologne
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, Bishop of Britain (1st c.)
Hieromartyr Alexander I, Pope of Rome (c. 117-138)
Hieromartyrs Eventius and Theodoulus, Presbyters of the Church of Rome,
martyred together with Pope Alexander of Rome (c. 117-138)
Holy Ten Martyrs of Phoenicia, by the sword
Martyr Sabinus of Hermopolis, Egypt (287)
Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thalus, Priests of Laodicea (300)
Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305)
Martyr Julian of Anazarbus, in Cilicia (305)
Venerable Aninas of Mesopotamia the Wonderworker
Hieromartyr Romanos, at Parium on the Hellespont
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Hilary of Aquileia and Tatian the Deacon, with Felix, Largus and Denis,
under Numerian (c. 284)
Saint Agapitus, Bishop of Ravenna (4th c.)
Saint Finian Lobhar, Abbot of Swords Abbey near Dublin (c. 560)
Saint Abbán of Kilabban (Ireland) (650)
Saint Eusebia, Abbess at Hamay-les-Marchiennes near Arras, France (c. 680)
Saint Dentlin (Dentelin, Denain), child-saint, considered a confessor
of the faith (7th c.)
Venerable John of Rufiana, ascetic of the Monasterium Rufianense
(San Pedro de Montes), near Astorga, Spain
Saint Megingold von Rothenburg (Megingaud, Mengold, Megingoz),
Bishop of Würzburg (794)
Saint Gregory Makar, a monk who was elected Bishop of Nicopolis in Armenia,
then fled to France and settled as a hermit in Pithiviers near Orleans (c. 1000)
Saint Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne (1021)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Christodoulos, Wonderworker of Patmos (1093)
Venerable Pimen of Salosi, Fool-for-Christ, Enlightener of the Dagestani
(North Caucasus people), and his companion Anthony of Meskhi, Georgia,
the Censurer of Kings (13th c.)
New Monk-martyr Malachi of Rhodes, who suffered at Jerusalem (1500)
Saint Serapion of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod (1516)
Saint Ambrose (Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927)
Venerable Eutropia (Isayenkova) of Kherson, clairvoyant (1968)
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Abbán
Heribert of Cologne
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, Bishop of Britain (1st c.)
Hieromartyr Alexander I, Pope of Rome (c. 117-138)
Hieromartyrs Eventius and Theodoulus, Presbyters of the Church of Rome,
martyred together with Pope Alexander of Rome (c. 117-138)
Holy Ten Martyrs of Phoenicia, by the sword
Martyr Sabinus of Hermopolis, Egypt (287)
Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thalus, Priests of Laodicea (300)
Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305)
Martyr Julian of Anazarbus, in Cilicia (305)
Venerable Aninas of Mesopotamia the Wonderworker
Hieromartyr Romanos, at Parium on the Hellespont
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Hilary of Aquileia and Tatian the Deacon, with Felix, Largus and Denis,
under Numerian (c. 284)
Saint Agapitus, Bishop of Ravenna (4th c.)
Saint Finian Lobhar, Abbot of Swords Abbey near Dublin (c. 560)
Saint Abbán of Kilabban (Ireland) (650)
Saint Eusebia, Abbess at Hamay-les-Marchiennes near Arras, France (c. 680)
Saint Dentlin (Dentelin, Denain), child-saint, considered a confessor
of the faith (7th c.)
Venerable John of Rufiana, ascetic of the Monasterium Rufianense
(San Pedro de Montes), near Astorga, Spain
Saint Megingold von Rothenburg (Megingaud, Mengold, Megingoz),
Bishop of Würzburg (794)
Saint Gregory Makar, a monk who was elected Bishop of Nicopolis in Armenia,
then fled to France and settled as a hermit in Pithiviers near Orleans (c. 1000)
Saint Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne (1021)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Christodoulos, Wonderworker of Patmos (1093)
Venerable Pimen of Salosi, Fool-for-Christ, Enlightener of the Dagestani
(North Caucasus people), and his companion Anthony of Meskhi, Georgia,
the Censurer of Kings (13th c.)
New Monk-martyr Malachi of Rhodes, who suffered at Jerusalem (1500)
Saint Serapion of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod (1516)
Saint Ambrose (Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927)
Venerable Eutropia (Isayenkova) of Kherson, clairvoyant (1968)
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