Page 2: Historical Events In March - 20
Thursday, 10 July 2025
1739 Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne on this day in history.
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 March - 20.
1760 On March - 20 great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1767 On March - 20 firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87
1774 John Braham, composer on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
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 George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election) on this day in history.
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 On this day in history matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)
1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands on March - 20.
1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule on this day in history.
1816 On March - 20 uS Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1820 Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania on March - 20.
1823 On March - 20 john Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
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 this day in history.
1829 On March - 20 charles Albert White, composer
1830 Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910 on this day in history.
1833 US &Siam conclude commercial treaty on this day in history.
1833 On March - 20 uS & Siam sign commercial treaty
1833 On March - 20 henry Southwick Perkins, composer
1834 Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909) on this day in history.
1846 Auguste Bender, writer on March - 20.
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