Page 2: Historical Events In March - 20

1739  Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne on March - 20.   

1739  On this day in history eligio Celestino, composer   

1750  On this day in history martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)   

1751  On this day in history frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies   

1757  Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 on March - 20.   

1760  Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings on March - 20.   

1767  On March - 20 firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87   

1774  On this day in history john Braham, composer   

1780  Sir Benjamin Truman on this day in history.   

1800  On March - 20 french army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, &advance to Cairo   

1800  French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo on March - 20.   

1804  On March - 20 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   

1804  On this day in history neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

1804  Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 on March - 20.   

1811  George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election) on March - 20.   

1812  On this day in history george Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880   

1812  On this day in history jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52   

1813  On March - 20 matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)   

1814  Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands on this day in history.   

1815  Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule on this day in history.   

1816  US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions on this day in history.   

1820  On March - 20 alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania   

1823  John Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 on this day in history.   

1825  On this day in history william Nelson Rector Beall, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1826  Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor on this day in history.   

1828  On this day in history the birth of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet   

1828  Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler) on March - 20.   

1829  On this day in history charles Albert White, composer   

1830  On March - 20 eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910   

1833  US &Siam conclude commercial treaty on this day in history.   

1833  US & Siam sign commercial treaty on this day in history.   

1833  Henry Southwick Perkins, composer on this day in history.   

1834  On March - 20 charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)   

1846  Auguste Bender, writer on March - 20.   

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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 this day in history.   

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 March - 20 birth of baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)   

1725  On March - 20 birth of abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)   

1728  Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist was born on this day in history.   

0687  On March - 20 death of st. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).   

0842  On this day in history alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies   

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

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

1351  On March - 20 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