0141 6th predicted perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction; thought "cause of plague epidemic"

1413 King Henry IV, the first English monarch from the Lancastrian dynasty, dies after years of illness, and his eldest son, Henry, ascends to the English throne

1525 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants

1569 Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé

1598 French king Henri IV &duke van Mercour sign treaty

1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

1627 France &Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism

1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"

1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings

1800 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, &advance to Cairo

1804 A royalist conspiracy against France's first consul Napoleon Bonaparte comes to light in February One conspirator, Gen Jean Victor Moreau, 41, escapes to America, but the duc d'Enghien Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon Condé, 32, is seized in Baden, condemned by a commission acting under Bonaparte's orders without regard to law, and shot at Vincennes the night of March 20

1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands

1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions

1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez

1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published

1854 Republican Party Founded In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig political party meet to establish a new political party that would oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories

1863 Battle of Pensacola FL evacuated by Federals

1865 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC

1865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives

1868 Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville KY of $14,000

1878 Postmaster-General John Delaney and meteorologist John Higgins install Newfoundland's first telephone.

1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed; protects industrial property

1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine

1890 German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck

1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens

1896 The Grand Trunk Railway obtains control of the Central Vermont Railway which retained its corporate identity.

1896 Uprising in Matabeleland

1896 Wilfred 'Wop' May pilot, World War I air ace, born on this day.. May was being pursued by German ace Manfred von Richthofen when the Red Baron was shot down.

1897 France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia

1901 General Electric starts construction of a large Canadian factory in Toronto.

1911 National Squah Tennis Association formed (New York NY)

1914 The first international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven

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