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 this day in history.   

1739  On March - 20 eligio Celestino, composer   

1750  Martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1767  Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1774  On March - 20 john Braham, composer   

1780  On this day in history sir Benjamin Truman   

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  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 on this day in history.   

1804  On March - 20 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 this day in history.   

1812  On March - 20 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 this day in history 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 March - 20.   

1816  On this day in history uS Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions   

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

1823  John Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 on March - 20.   

1825  William Nelson Rector Beall, Brig General (Confederate Army) on March - 20.   

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  On March - 20 henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)   

1829  On March - 20 charles Albert White, composer   

1830  On this day in history eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910   

1833  On this day in history uS &Siam conclude commercial treaty   

1833  US & Siam sign commercial treaty on March - 20.   

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  Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507) was born on March - 20.   

1477  On March - 20 birth of jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)   

1502  Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575) was born on March - 20.   

1634  Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets) was born on this day in history.   

1644  On this day in history birth of ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)   

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

1725  On this day in history birth of abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)   

1728  On this day in history birth of franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist   

0687  On this day in history death of st. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).   

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

1191  Clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies on March - 20.   

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

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

1393  On this day in history death of johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed   

1413  On March - 20 death of king Henry IV of England (b. 1367)   

1415  Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45 on March - 20.