1279 – A Mongolian victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.
1563 – The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1812 – The Cádiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1831 – The first U.S. bank robbery occurred when the City Bank in New York was robbed of $245,000.
1853 – The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1885 – Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1812 – The Cádiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1831 – The first U.S. bank robbery occurred when the City Bank in New York was robbed of $245,000.
1853 – The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1885 – Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1895: The Los Angeles Railway was established to provide streetcar service to the greater Los Angeles area.
1916 – The First Aero Squadron took part in the first American air combat mission when they flew in support of American ground troops searching for Mexican bandit Pancho Villa.
1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the US Army Air Corps, is activated.
1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1944 – World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering the destruction of all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany as the Allies advanced on Germany.
1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
1954 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
1954 – Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.
1958 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label.
1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 – Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
1969 – The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
1989 – The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
1990 – The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2003 – President George W. Bush officially declared the commencement of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF). The United States, along with many other coalition nations, launched an invasion of Iraq, due to a belief that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was in the process of building or acquiring weapons of mass destruction. A relatively unstable dictatorship that had been accused of harboring terrorists, an Iraq armed with these weapons or in the process of acquiring them was considered to be a major threat to world safety. The coalition nations took the initiative and invaded the country Iraq with the goal of deposing Saddam Hussein’s decades-old despotic regime and eliminating its capacity to create or utilize weapons of mass destruction.
2004 – Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. A total of 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
2004 – A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
2004 – 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
2011 – Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Earliest day on which Maundy Thursday can fall, while April 22 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Easter.
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Joseph of Nazareth (Western Christianity)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them in Rome (283):
Claudius the Tribune, his wife Hilaria, their sons Jason and Maurus,
the priest Diodorus, and the deacon Marianus
Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia (302)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saints Quintus, Quintilla, Quartilla, Mark and Companions, martyrs venerated
in Sorrento near Naples in Italy
Saints Apollonius and Leontius (Leontinus), by tradition early Bishops of Braga
in Portugal (4th c.)
Saint Auxilius, a companion of St Patrick, became Bishop of Killossey
(near Naas, County Kildare) in Ireland (c. 460)
Saint John the Syrian of Pinna, a Syrian monk who settled in Pinna near Spoleto in Italy,
became abbot of a large monastic colony there for forty-four years (6th c.)
Saint Leontius of Saintes, Bishop of Saintes (640)
Saint Adrian, disciple of St Landoald, murdered while begging alms for his monastery
near Maastricht in the Netherlands (c. 668)
Saints Landoald and Amantius, a priest and deacon who helped enlighten what is now
Belgium and north-eastern France, founded the church at Wintershoven (c. 668)
Saint Lactan, born near Cork in Ireland, St Comgall entrusted him to found
a monastery at Achadh-Ur, now Freshford, in Kilkenny (672)
Saint Alcmund (Alchmund of Derby, or of Lilleshall), martyred in Shropshire (c. 800)
Saint Gemus, a monk, probably at Moyenmoutier in Alsace, now in France;
his relics were enshrined at Hürbach
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Righteous Mary (Maria Shvarnovna), wife of Vsevelod III (1206)
Saint Bassa, nun, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1473)
Venerable Innocent of Komel the Wonderworker, in Vologda (1521),
disciple of St. Nilus of Sora
New Martyr Demetrius, at Constantinople (1564)
Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Minsk, descendant of the Sovereigns
of the Kyivan-Rus' (1612)
New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657)
Saint Symeon (Popovic), Archimandrite of Dajbabe Monastery, Montenegro (1941)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Saint John Blinov, Confessor (1932)
New Martyr Matrona Alexeeva (1938)
Other commemorations
Smolensk "Umileniye" ("Tender Feeling") Icon of the Most Holy TheotokosEarliest day on which Maundy Thursday can fall, while April 22 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Easter.
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Joseph of Nazareth (Western Christianity)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them in Rome (283):
Claudius the Tribune, his wife Hilaria, their sons Jason and Maurus,
the priest Diodorus, and the deacon Marianus
Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia (302)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saints Quintus, Quintilla, Quartilla, Mark and Companions, martyrs venerated
in Sorrento near Naples in Italy
Saints Apollonius and Leontius (Leontinus), by tradition early Bishops of Braga
in Portugal (4th c.)
Saint Auxilius, a companion of St Patrick, became Bishop of Killossey
(near Naas, County Kildare) in Ireland (c. 460)
Saint John the Syrian of Pinna, a Syrian monk who settled in Pinna near Spoleto in Italy,
became abbot of a large monastic colony there for forty-four years (6th c.)
Saint Leontius of Saintes, Bishop of Saintes (640)
Saint Adrian, disciple of St Landoald, murdered while begging alms for his monastery
near Maastricht in the Netherlands (c. 668)
Saints Landoald and Amantius, a priest and deacon who helped enlighten what is now
Belgium and north-eastern France, founded the church at Wintershoven (c. 668)
Saint Lactan, born near Cork in Ireland, St Comgall entrusted him to found
a monastery at Achadh-Ur, now Freshford, in Kilkenny (672)
Saint Alcmund (Alchmund of Derby, or of Lilleshall), martyred in Shropshire (c. 800)
Saint Gemus, a monk, probably at Moyenmoutier in Alsace, now in France;
his relics were enshrined at Hürbach
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Righteous Mary (Maria Shvarnovna), wife of Vsevelod III (1206)
Saint Bassa, nun, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1473)
Venerable Innocent of Komel the Wonderworker, in Vologda (1521),
disciple of St. Nilus of Sora
New Martyr Demetrius, at Constantinople (1564)
Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Minsk, descendant of the Sovereigns
of the Kyivan-Rus' (1612)
New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657)
Saint Symeon (Popovic), Archimandrite of Dajbabe Monastery, Montenegro (1941)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Saint John Blinov, Confessor (1932)
New Martyr Matrona Alexeeva (1938)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Mother of God of Lubyatov (15th c.)
Malankara Orthodox
Commemoration of HG Sleeba Mar Osthathios Metropolitan
(Kunnamkulam Arthat Puthur Church)
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