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 A packed lecture hall in St. Louis watched Nikola Tesla do something no human ha
March 2
1807 The United States banned the importation of enslaved people on the earliest date
March 3
1585 The oldest indoor theater still standing opened its doors in Vicenza, Italy, on
March 4
1933 Frances Perkins walked into Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet on March 4, 1933, with
March 5
1953 Joseph Stalin's inner circle found him lying on the floor of his dacha outside M
March 6
1899 Bayer registered the trademark "Aspirin" on March 6, 1899, for a pill that would
March 7
1965 State troopers on horseback charged into 600 peaceful marchers on the Edmund Pet
March 8
1917 Thousands of women textile workers walked off their jobs in Petrograd on March 8
March 9
1862 Two armored warships fired at each other for four hours at close range in Hampto
March 10
1959 Three hundred thousand Tibetans surrounded the Norbulingka Palace in Lhasa on Ma
March 11
2011 Waves forty meters high slammed into the northeastern coast of Japan on the afte
March 12
1930 Seventy-eight men walked out of the Sabarmati Ashram behind a sixty-year-old man
March 13
624 Three hundred thirteen men defeated an army three times their size and changed t
March 14
1879 Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879, to a family that wo
March 15
March 16
1968 American soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment en
March 17
461 Patrick died at Saul, County Down, around March 17, 461, after spending nearly t
March 18
1940 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass on the Austro-Italian
March 19
2003 American cruise missiles struck Baghdad at 5:34 AM local time on March 20, 2003
March 20
1726 Isaac Newton died on March 20, 1727, at age eighty-four, in his sleep at his Lon
March 21
1965 A federal judge had cleared the way, and this time, the marchers would not be st
March 22
1993 Intel's first Pentium processor could execute 100 million instructions per secon
March 23
1775 Patrick Henry never wrote down the speech. The words "Give me liberty, or give m
March 24
1765 British soldiers sleeping in colonial homes was the kind of indignity that turns
March 25
1957 Six nations signed away a piece of their sovereignty and created the institution
March 26
1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh over a clandestine
March 27
1794 Algerian pirates were the reason America built a navy. Congress passed the Naval
March 28
1979 A stuck valve and a series of human errors triggered America's worst nuclear acc
March 29
1867 Canada was not born from revolution but from negotiation, compromise, and a heal
March 30
1842 Surgery before anesthesia was a race against time and screaming. Surgeons were v
March 31
1854 Commodore Matthew Perry arrived with more guns than arguments, and Japan underst