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

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

1877 Commencement of first Test Cricket, Australia vs England at MCG

1887 Michigan appoints first salaried game and fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)

1889 6 US and German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die

1892 Escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)

1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)

1892 The first escalator, the Reno Inclined Elevator, is patented by Jesse W Reno of New York.

1903 British conquest of northern Nigeria is complete.

1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa

1906 Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd

1907 Finland is first European country to give women the right to vote

1913 Cleveland establishes first small claims court

1913 First Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)

1915 Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea

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