History by month
March
31 days of history. Every date is an entry point to the events, births, and moments that shaped our world.
March 1
1893 Nikola Tesla demonstrated wireless radio transmission to a St. Louis audience in
March 2
1807 The US Congress banned the importation of enslaved people effective January 1, 1
March 3
1585 Andrea Palladio's Teatro Olimpico opened its doors in Vicenza, Italy, on March 3
March 4
1933 Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in a US presidential cabinet whe
March 5
1953 Joseph Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939, then expressed s
March 6
1899 Felix Hoffmann, a Bayer chemist, synthesized a pure and stable form of acetylsal
March 7
1965 State troopers and county deputies attacked 600 civil rights marchers on the Edm
March 8
1917 Thousands of women textile workers marched through the streets of Petrograd on M
March 9
1862 The ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia clashed in Hampton Roads, Virginia, o
March 10
1959 Rebels in Lhasa launched an armed uprising against Chinese control on March 10,
March 11
2011 A 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck 70 kilometers east of the Oshika Peninsula on
March 12
1930 Mahatma Gandhi and 78 followers departed his Sabarmati Ashram on March 12, 1930,
March 13
624 A small Muslim force of roughly 313 men under Muhammad's command defeated a Mecc
March 14
1879 Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879. His parents worried he was slow. He
March 15
March 16
1968 American soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment en
March 17
461 Patrick died on March 17, 461, at Saul, County Down, where he had built his firs
March 18
1940 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass on the Austro-Italian
March 19
2003 American and coalition forces launched a bombing campaign against Baghdad just a
March 20
1726 Newton didn't discover gravity by watching an apple fall. That story came later,
March 21
1965 State troopers and sheriff's deputies beat 600 marchers with billy clubs and tea
March 22
1993 Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chips, delivering over 100 MIPS and
March 23
1775 Patrick Henry spearheaded Virginia's committee of correspondence in 1773 alongsi
March 24
1765 Great Britain forces the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops under the new
March 25
1957 West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg signed the
March 26
1971 East Pakistan severs ties with Pakistan to declare the People's Republic of Bang
March 27
1794 Congress passed the Naval Act of 1794 to build six frigates after Algiers captur
March 28
1979 Stuck valves and confused operators triggered a partial nuclear meltdown at Penn
March 29
1867 The British North America Act of 1867 united three colonies into a single Domini
March 30
1842 Crawford W. Long administered ether to remove a tumor in 1842, proving surgery c
March 31
1854 Commodore Matthew Perry forces Japan to open its ports at Shimoda and Hakodate t