1401 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 – After 44 years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, and King James VI of Scotland ascended to the throne as James I of England, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch.
1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan
1664 – Roger Williams is granted a charter to form the colony of Rhode Island.
1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February. She had been wanting to rule jointly with her husband in the same manner as William and Mary in the British Isles, but after the Riksdag of the Estates said no to this, she chose to abdicate the throne in his favour instead.
1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
1731 – Jerome De Salis becomes a naturalised British subject by private Act of Parliament (Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis).
1765 – American Revolution: The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act of 1765, requiring the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops, and outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. The Act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine. Should there still be soldiers without accommodation after all such publick houses were filled, the colonies were then required to take, hire and make fit for the reception of his Majesty's forces, such and so many uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings as shall be necessary.
1829 – Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
1854 – Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.
1860 – Sakuradamon incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
1862: Abolitionist orator Wendell Phillips is booed while attempting to give a lecture in Cincinnati, Ohio. The angry crowd was opposed to fighting for the freedom of slaves, as Phillips advocated. He was pelted with rocks and eggs before friends whisked him away when a small riot broke out.
1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. Thanks to this and other key discoveries, he is regarded as a founder of modern bacteriology.
1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.
1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
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1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1918: German forces cross the Somme River, achieving their first goal of the major spring offensive begun three days earlier on the Western Front.
1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot all eight males inside.
1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1934 – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1944 – Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
1944 – Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate, leader of the 77th Indian Brigade, also called the Chindits, dies in a transport plane crash in northeast India. He was 41 years old.
1945 – The Allies launch Operation Varsity, the war’s last major airborne operation.
1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1949: President Harry S. Truman signs a U.S. resolution authorizing $16 million in aid for Palestinian refugees displaced and facing starvation as a result of Israel's War of Independence in 1948.
1958 – Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta.
1965: The first "teach-in" is conducted at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; two hundred faculty members participate by holding special anti-war seminars. Regular classes were canceled, and rallies and speeches dominated for 12 hours. On March 26, there was a similar teach-in at Columbia University in New York City; this form of protest eventually spread to many colleges and universities.
1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
1972 – The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
1975: The North Vietnamese "Ho Chi Minh Campaign" begins. Despite the 1973 Paris Peace Accords cease fire, the fighting had continued between South Vietnamese forces and the North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam. In December 1974, the North Vietnamese launched a major attack against the lightly defended province of Phuoc Long, located north of Saigon along the Cambodian border. They successfully overran the provincial capital at Phuoc Binh on January 6, 1975.
1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
1977: For the first time since severing diplomatic relations in 1961, Cuba and the United States enter into direct negotiations when the two nations discuss fishing rights. The talks marked a dramatic, but short-lived, change in relations between the two Cold War enemies.
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: The supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska.
1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.
1996: U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station.
1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shoot their classmates and teachers at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Golden, the younger of the two boys, asked to be excused from his class, pulled a fire alarm and then ran to join Johnson in a wooded area 100 yards from the school's gym. As the students streamed out of the building, Johnson and Golden opened fire and killed four students and a teacher. Ten other children were wounded.
1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1998 – First Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
1999 – Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people.
1999 – Kosovo War: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commences air strikes against Yugoslavia with the bombing of Serbian military positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, marking the first time NATO had attacked a sovereign country. The NATO offensive came in response to a new wave of ethnic cleansing launched by Serbian forces against the Kosovar Albanians on March 20.
2000 – S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2014 – A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O'Hare Airport station, injuring 32 people.
2015: Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board, including contralto Maria Radner and bass baritone Oleg Bryjak.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Paul Couturier (Church of England)
Walter Hilton (Church of England)
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Saints
Saint Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia in Pisidia (1st c.)
Hieromartyr Artemon, presbyter of Laodicea (284-305)
Martyr Timolaus and 7 Companions with him (8 Martyrs),
in Caesarea Palaestina, by beheading (305)
Venerable Zachariah the Recluse, of Egypt (4th c.)
Venerable Martin of the Thebaid, monk
Venerable Abraham of Mount Latros, ascetic
Saint Thomas, Abbot of the monastery of St. Euthymius (542)
Venerable Jacob of Catania (James the Confessor), Bishop of Catania (c. 730)
Saint Severus of Catania, Bishop of Catania (c. 812)
Hieromartyr Artemon, presbyter of Laodicea (284-305)
Martyr Timolaus and 7 Companions with him (8 Martyrs),
in Caesarea Palaestina, by beheading (305)
Venerable Zachariah the Recluse, of Egypt (4th c.)
Venerable Martin of the Thebaid, monk
Venerable Abraham of Mount Latros, ascetic
Saint Thomas, Abbot of the monastery of St. Euthymius (542)
Venerable Jacob of Catania (James the Confessor), Bishop of Catania (c. 730)
Saint Severus of Catania, Bishop of Catania (c. 812)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Flavius Latinus of Brescia, third Bishop of Brescia in Italy (84-115)
Martyrs Romulus and Secundus, brothers, in Mauritania (Barbary),
who suffered for the faith of Christ
Saint Pigmenius, a priest in Rome thrown into the Tiber under Julian
the Apostate (362)
Saint Domangard (Donard), patron of Maghera in Co. Down in Ireland, who lived
as a hermit on the mountain now called Slieve-Donard after him (c. 500)
Saint Macartan (Macartin, Maccarthen, Mac Cairthinn of Clogher), an early disciple and
companion of St Patrick of Ireland, who consecrated him Bishop of Clogher (c. 505)
Saint Cairlon (Caorlan, Carláen), an abbot in Ireland who became Archbishop
of Cashel (6th c.)
Saint Caimin of Inis Cealtra (of Holy Island on Lough Derg), Bishop-Abbot
of Inis Cealtra and possibly the first Bishop of Killaloe (653)
Saint Hildelith, Abbess of Barking Abbey (c. 712)
Martyrs Romulus and Secundus, brothers, in Mauritania (Barbary),
who suffered for the faith of Christ
Saint Pigmenius, a priest in Rome thrown into the Tiber under Julian
the Apostate (362)
Saint Domangard (Donard), patron of Maghera in Co. Down in Ireland, who lived
as a hermit on the mountain now called Slieve-Donard after him (c. 500)
Saint Macartan (Macartin, Maccarthen, Mac Cairthinn of Clogher), an early disciple and
companion of St Patrick of Ireland, who consecrated him Bishop of Clogher (c. 505)
Saint Cairlon (Caorlan, Carláen), an abbot in Ireland who became Archbishop
of Cashel (6th c.)
Saint Caimin of Inis Cealtra (of Holy Island on Lough Derg), Bishop-Abbot
of Inis Cealtra and possibly the first Bishop of Killaloe (653)
Saint Hildelith, Abbess of Barking Abbey (c. 712)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Zachariah, Faster of the Kiev Caves (12th c.)
Martyrs Stephen[22] and Peter[23] of Kazan (1552)
New Hieromartyr Parthenius III, Patriarch of Constantinople (1657)
Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947)
Martyrs Stephen[22] and Peter[23] of Kazan (1552)
New Hieromartyr Parthenius III, Patriarch of Constantinople (1657)
Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Pankin, Priest, of Chimkent (1920)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the miracle at the Kiev Caves Lavra
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