Top Historical Events That Happened on March 20 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1757  Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60.   

1760  Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.   

1767  Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87   

1774  John Braham, composer.   

1780  Sir Benjamin Truman.   

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

1804  Neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897.   

1804  Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47   

1811  George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)   

1812  George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880   

1812  Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52   

1813  Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High).   

1814  Prince Willem Frederik is recorded as becoming 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.   

1820  Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania.   

1823  John Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896.   

1825  William Nelson Rector Beall, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1826  Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor.   

1828  Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet is born.   

1828  Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)   

1829  Charles Albert White, composer   

1830  Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910   

1833  US and Siam conclude commercial treaty.   

1833  US and Siam sign commercial treaty   

1833  Henry Southwick Perkins, composer.   

1834  Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909).   

1846  Auguste Bender, writer.   

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

1848  Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27.   

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

1852  Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston).   

1853  George Godfrey, Chelsea Mass, heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate).   

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.   

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