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

1477  On March - 20 birth of jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)   

1502  On March - 20 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 March - 20 birth of ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)   

1680  On March - 20 birth of baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)   

1725  On this day in history 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 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  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 this day in history.   

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  On March - 20 henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45