Historical Events In March - 20

0141  On March - 20 6th predicted perihelion passage of Halley's Comet  

0141  6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet on this day in history.  

0842  Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies on this day in history.  

1191  On March - 20 clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies  

1239  Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) on this day in history.  

1345  Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction; thought "cause of plague epidemic" on this day in history.  

1345  Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic" on March - 20.  

1351  On March - 20 mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies  

1393  On March - 20 johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed  

1413  On March - 20 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  

1415  Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45 on this day in history.  

1501  On March - 20 jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72  

1525  On this day in history paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants  

1531  On this day in history sicke Freerks/Frericx, [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded  

1549  Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded on this day in history.  

1568  Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1569  On March - 20 duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé  

1569  On March - 20 duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé  

1598  On March - 20 french king Henri IV &duke van Mercour sign treaty  

1598  French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty on this day in history.  

1600  The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden on this day in history.  

1602  On March - 20 dutch East India Company founded  

1602  United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms on March - 20.  

1616  Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana on this day in history.  

1617  On March - 20 franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50  

1619  On this day in history matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies  

1627  France &Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism on March - 20.  

1627  On this day in history france & Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism  

1634  On March - 20 balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)  

1646  Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35 on this day in history.  

1680  On March - 20 baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)  

1697  On March - 20 willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"  

1703  On March - 20 johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies  

1728  On March - 20 franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist  

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1469  On this day in history birth of princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)  

1477  Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527) was born on March - 20.  

1502  On March - 20 birth of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)  

1634  On this day in history birth of balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)  

1644  Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709) was born on this day in history.  

1680  On this day in history birth of baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)  

1725  Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789) was born on March - 20.  

1728  On March - 20 birth of franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist  

0687  Death of St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634) on this day in history.  

0842  Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies on March - 20.  

1191  On this day in history clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies  

1239  On this day in history death of hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)  

1351  On this day in history mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies  

1393  Death of Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed on March - 20.  

1413  On this day in history death of king Henry IV of England (b. 1367)  

1415  On March - 20 henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45