SomeFacts | March 1

On this day - March 1

Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman ...

293 — Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and ...

350 — Vetranio proclaims himself Caesar after being encouraged to do ...

834 — Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole ruler of the ...

1290 — University of Coimbra, in Portugal, is officially chartered by ...

1476 — Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined ...

1562 — Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking ...

1628 — Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that ...

1633 — Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New ...

1692 — Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are brought before local ...

1781 — The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United ...

1796 — The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian ...

1805 — Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his ...

1811 — Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler ...

1815 — Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.

1836 — A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes ...

1845 — United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing ...

1867 — Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.

1870 — Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus ...

1871 — The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, ...

1872 — Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's ...

1893 — Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public ...

1896 — Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.

1896 — Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered ...

1901 — The Australian Army is formed.

1910 — The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a ...

1914 — China joins the Universal Postal Union.

1917 — The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the ...

1919 — March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.

1921 — Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom ...

1921 — The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong ...

1932 — Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr ...

1939 — An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at ...

1941 — World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying ...

1942 — World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of ...

1946 — The Bank of England is nationalised.

1947 — The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.

1950 — Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet ...

1953 — Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; ...

1954 — Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States ...

1954 — Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton ...

1956 — Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.

1956 — The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft ...

1958 — Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the ...

1961 — Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.

1962 — American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New ...

1964 — Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, ...

1964 — Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing ...

1966 — The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.

1966 — Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the ...

1971 — President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the ...

1973 — Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, ...

1974 — Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the ...

1981 — Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins ...

1990 — Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret ...

1991 — Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the ...

1992 — Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from ...

1998 — Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion ...

2002 — Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-109 to service the ...

2002 — The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches ...

2002 — U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in ...

2003 — Management of the United States Customs Service and the United ...

2005 — In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the ...

2006 — English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, ...

2007 — Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing ...

2008 — The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally ...

2014 — Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass ...