• 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
• 321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
• 1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris.
• 1798 - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.
• 1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
• 1799 - The Royal Institution is founded.
• 1814 - Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
• 1815 - Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louis XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.
• 1827 - Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.
• 1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
• 1848 - The Great mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.
• 1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465).
• 1912 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they'd arrived on December 14, 1911.
• 1914 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
• 1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
• 1926 - The first transatlantic telephone call was made from New York City to London.
• 1936 - World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
• 1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, establish a bridgehead on Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a lodgement. This event shakes up the whole Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II.
• 1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
• 1948 - The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule.
• 1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
• 1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
• 1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
• 1968 - The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.
• 1969 - Golda Meir nominated by the Labor party as the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
• 1971- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave a directional speech at the Race Course Field (Now,Sohrawardi Garden) towards the nation of East Pakistan at that time (Current Bangladesh) which guided Bangladesh to set for the liberation war and clinch victory on 16th December, 1971.
• 1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
• 1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
• 1989 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet.
• 1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
• 1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.
• 1996 - The Hubble Space Telescope makes the first pictures of the surface of Pluto.
• 2004 - New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece.
• 2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait.
• 2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

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