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 March - 20 frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies   

1757  On March - 20 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 March - 20 sir Benjamin Truman   

1800  French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, &advance to Cairo on this day in history.   

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 this day in history neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

1804  On March - 20 ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47   

1811  On this day in history george Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)   

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 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  On this day in history napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule   

1816  US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions on this day in history.   

1820  On this day in history alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania   

1823  John Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 on March - 20.   

1825  William Nelson Rector Beall, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

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  On March - 20 henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)   

1829  Charles Albert White, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1833  On March - 20 henry Southwick Perkins, composer   

1834  On this day in history charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)   

1846  On March - 20 auguste Bender, writer   

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

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

1502  Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575) was born on this day in history.   

1634  On this day in history 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  Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789) was born on March - 20.   

1728  On March - 20 birth of franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist   

0687  Death of St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634) on March - 20.   

0842  Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies on this day in history.   

1191  On March - 20 clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies   

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 this day in history death of johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed   

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