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 sparks a global communication revolution by demonstrating wireless
March 2
1807 The U.S. Congress banned all international slave trade effective January 1, 1808
March 3
1585 Andrea Palladio's Olympic Theatre opens its doors in Vicenza, establishing the f
March 4
1933 Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post when Roosevel
March 5
1953 Joseph Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939, then expressed s
March 6
1899 Bayer chemist Felix Hoffmann synthesized acetylsalicylic acid in 1897, transform
March 7
1965 State and local police brutally attack 600 civil rights marchers on the Edmund P
March 8
1917 Thousands of women marched through the snow in St. Petersburg demanding bread an
March 9
1862 Ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia clash at Hampton Roads, compelling naval
March 10
1959 Rebels in Lhasa ignited a revolt against Chinese control, sparking armed conflic
March 11
2011 A 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sendai triggered a massive tsunami t
March 12
1930 Gandhi and eighty satyagrahis marched 390 kilometres to Dandi to break Britain's
March 13
624 A small Muslim force repelled a much larger Meccan army at Badr, instantly estab
March 14
1879 Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879. His parents worried he was slow. He
March 15
March 16
1968 American troops slaughtered between 347 and 500 Vietnamese civilians in the My L
March 17
461 Patrick died in Saul on March 17, 461, after four decades of preaching and build
March 18
1940 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sealed their pact at the Brenner Pass, transfo
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