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 March - 20 frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies   

1757  Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1760  On this day in history great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings   

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

1774  John Braham, composer on this day in history.   

1780  Sir Benjamin Truman on this day in history.   

1800  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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  Neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 on March - 20.   

1804  Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

1811  On March - 20 george Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)   

1812  George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 on March - 20.   

1812  Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1813  Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High) on March - 20.   

1814  On March - 20 prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands   

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

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

1820  Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania on March - 20.   

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

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

1826  On March - 20 carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor   

1828  The birth of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet on this day in history.   

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

1829  Charles Albert White, composer on March - 20.   

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

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

1833  On March - 20 uS & Siam sign commercial treaty   

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

1834  Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909) on this day in history.   

1846  Auguste Bender, writer on this day in history.   

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1469  Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507) was born on March - 20.   

1477  On this day in history birth of jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)   

1502  On this day in history birth of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)   

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

1644  Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709) was born on March - 20.   

1680  Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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

0842  On March - 20 alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies   

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

1239  Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) on March - 20.   

1351  Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies on March - 20.   

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