Events
161 -
Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors
Marcus Aurelius and
Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the
Roman Empire.321 -
Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies
Solis Invicti (
sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by
Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris.
1798 - The
French army enters
Rome: the birth of the
Roman Republic.
1799 -
Napoleon I of France captures
Jaffa in
Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000
Albanian captives. 1799 - The
Royal Institution is founded.
1814 - Napoleon I of France wins the
Battle of Craonne.
1815 - Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louis XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.
1827 -
Brazil marines sail up the
Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of
Carmen de Patagones,
Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.1827 -
Shrigley Abduction:
Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in
Cheshire,
England is
abducted by
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future
politician in colonial
New Zealand.
1848 - The
Great mahele (land division) is signed in
Hawaii.
1850 -
United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the
Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible
civil war.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Pea Ridge -
Union forces led by
General Samuel Curtis defeat
Confederate troops under
General Earl Van Dorn at
Pea Ridge in northwestern
Arkansas.
1876 -
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the
telephone (patent # 174,465).
1911 -
Revolution in
Mexico.
1912 -
Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the
South Pole, though they had arrived on
December 14,
1911.
1914 -
Prince William of Wied arrives in
Albania to begin his reign.
1918 -
World War I:
Finland forms an alliance with
Germany.
1936 -
World War II: In violation of the
Locarno Pact and the
Treaty of Versailles,
Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 - World War II:
American troops seize the
Ludendorff Bridge over the
Rhine River at
Remagen, establish a
bridgehead on
Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a
lodgement, which events shakes up the whole
Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II.
1947 - The
Kuomintang and
Communist Party of China resume full-fledged
Civil War.
1948 - The
Dodecanese islands officially become part of
Greece again, ending the Italian rule.
1950 -
Cold War: The
Soviet Union issues a statement denying that
Klaus Fuchs served as a
Soviet spy.
1951 -
Korean War:
Operation Ripper - In
Korea,
United Nations troops led by
General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against
Chinese forces.
1965 - In
Selma, Alabama,
State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600
civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed
Bloody Sunday.
1969 -
Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of
Israel.
1988 -
Colombia becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1989 -
Iran and the
United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over
Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.1989 - The
State Council of the People's Republic of China declares
martial law in
Lhasa,
Tibet.
1994 - The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in
Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of
fair use.
1996 - The first democratically elected
Palestinian parliament is formed.
2004 -
New Democracy wins the national elections in
Greece.
2005 - Mass protest outside the
National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in
Kuwait.
2006 -
Apple Inc. is granted the patent to their revolutionary device, the
iPod. (patent # D516,576)
2007 -
British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the
House of Lords, 100 lected.
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