Page 2: Historical Events In March - 20

1739  On this day in history nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.   

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  On this day in history johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60   

1760  Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings on this day in history.   

1767  On March - 20 firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87   

1774  John Braham, composer on March - 20.   

1780  On this day in history sir Benjamin Truman   

1800  French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, &advance to Cairo on March - 20.   

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  Neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 on March - 20.   

1804  On this day in history ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47   

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  On this day in history jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52   

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 March - 20.   

1816  US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions on March - 20.   

1820  On March - 20 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 March - 20 carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor   

1828  On March - 20 the birth of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet   

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  Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910 on March - 20.   

1833  On this day in history uS &Siam conclude commercial treaty   

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

1833  On March - 20 henry Southwick Perkins, composer   

1834  On March - 20 charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)   

1846  On this day in history auguste Bender, writer   

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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  On March - 20 birth of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)   

1634  On this day in history birth of balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)   

1644  Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709) was born on this day in history.   

1680  On this day in history birth of baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)   

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

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

1239  On March - 20 death of hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)   

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 this day in history.   

1413  Death of King Henry IV of England (b. 1367) on March - 20.   

1415  On March - 20 henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45