0044 B.C. Caius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by a group of sixty conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Caius Cassius Longinus
0933 Battle at Riade German King Henry I beats Magyaren
0933 Henry the Fowler routs Magyar raiders March 15 at Merseburg
1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage
1560 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
1562 General François de Guise enters Paris France
1580 Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1672 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, first US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
1778 Nootka Sound, BC Captain James Cook reaches the west coast of Vancouver Island with his ships Resolution and Discovery, on the way to search for a North West Passage from the Pacific; names the site Friendly Cove after a warm reception from local Nootka people
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, South Carolina (British suffer heavy losses)
1812 First Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
1827 Freedom's Journal, first Black newspaper, publishes
1827 University of Toronto is chartered
1855 Louisiana establishes first health board to regulate quarantine
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin TN
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria LA
1867 Michigan becomes first state to tax property to support a university
1875 First US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
