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  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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1469  Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507) was born on this day in history.   

1477  On this day in history birth of jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)   

1502  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)   

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

1725  Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789) was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies   

1191  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1351  Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies on March - 20.   

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