Page 2: Historical Events In March - 20
Saturday, 19 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 On this day in history eligio Celestino, composer
1750 On March - 20 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 this day in history.
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings on this day in history.
1767 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 on March - 20.
1774 On March - 20 john Braham, composer
1780 Sir Benjamin Truman on March - 20.
1800 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, &advance to Cairo on this day in history.
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 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 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 On this day in history jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52
1813 Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High) on this day in history.
1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands on this day in history.
1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule on this day in history.
1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions on March - 20.
1820 Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania on this day in history.
1823 John Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 on this day in history.
1825 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1828 Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler) on this day in history.
1829 On this day in history charles Albert White, composer
1830 Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910 on March - 20.
1833 US &Siam conclude commercial treaty on March - 20.
1833 US & Siam sign commercial treaty on March - 20.
1833 Henry Southwick Perkins, composer on March - 20.
1834 Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909) on this day in history.
1846 Auguste Bender, writer on this day in history.
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