Historical Events in March, Month of March Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 4, 1849 | President-elect of the United States Zachary Taylor and Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of acting president for one day. |
| March 31, 2018 | Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution. |
| March 25, 1584 | Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia. |
| March 1, 2014 | Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China. |
| March 1, 1998 | Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide. |
| March 6, 1882 | The Serbian kingdom is re-founded. |
| March 30, 1842 | Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long. |
| March 4, 1882 | Britain's first electric trams run in east London. |
| March 19, 1687 | Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men. |
| March 9, 1976 | Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date. |
| March 24, 2018 | Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive. |
| March 4, 1960 | The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100. |
| March 3, 1857 | Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. |
| March 31, 1761 | The 1761 Lisbon earthquake strikes off the Iberian Peninsula with an estimated magnitude of 8.5, six years after another quake destroyed the city. |
| March 4, 2020 | Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk on the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua. |
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