Historical Events in March, Month of March Events
Here is a list of some historical events in March. You can learn What major event happened in March?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 8, 1937 | Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins. |
| March 24, 1980 | El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.[57] |
| March 22, 1508 | Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire. |
| March 23, 2020 | Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19. |
| March 14, 1995 | Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. |
| March 30, 1944 | Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war. |
| March 24, 1854 | President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.[24] |
| March 3, 1857 | Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. |
| March 16, 2021 | Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day. |
| March 30, 1939 | The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h). |
| March 18, 1937 | Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara. |
| March 19, 1279 | A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China. |
| March 9, 1942 | World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign. |
| March 17, 1950 | Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium". |
| March 30, 1818 | Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid. |
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