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  Eligio Celestino, composer on March - 20.   

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

1751  Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies on this day in history.   

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  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  On this day in history french army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo   

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 this day in history.   

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

1812  On March - 20 george Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880   

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

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  On this day in history napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule   

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

1820  On this day in history 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 March - 20 william Nelson Rector Beall, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1826  Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor on March - 20.   

1828  The birth of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet on March - 20.   

1828  On this day in history henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)   

1829  Charles Albert White, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

1833  On March - 20 uS & Siam sign commercial treaty   

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

1834  On this day in history charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)   

1846  Auguste Bender, writer on March - 20.   

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1469  On March - 20 birth of princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)   

1477  Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527) was born on this day in history.   

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 March - 20.   

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

1728  Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist was born on March - 20.   

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

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