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  Eligio Celestino, composer on March - 20.   

1750  On this day in history martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)   

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  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  On this day in history john Braham, composer   

1780  On this day in history sir Benjamin Truman   

1800  On this day in history 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  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  On March - 20 ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47   

1811  George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election) on this day in history.   

1812  On this day in history george Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880   

1812  Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52 on March - 20.   

1813  On March - 20 matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)   

1814  On this day in history 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  On this day in history alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania   

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  On this day in history carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor   

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

1828  Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler) on this day in history.   

1829  Charles Albert White, composer on March - 20.   

1830  On March - 20 eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910   

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

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

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  On March - 20 auguste Bender, writer   

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1469  On this day in history birth of princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)   

1477  Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527) was born on March - 20.   

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

1634  On March - 20 birth of balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)   

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

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  Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist was born on this day in history.   

0687  On this day in history 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 March - 20.   

1239  Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) on this day in history.   

1351  Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies on this day in history.   

1393  Death of Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed on March - 20.   

1413  Death of King Henry IV of England (b. 1367) on this day in history.   

1415  Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45 on this day in history.