Historical Events in March, Month of March Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 21, 1801 | The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis near Alexandria in Egypt. |
| March 17, 2004 | Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed. |
| March 18, 1068 | An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead. |
| March 30, 1981 | U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident. |
| March 23, 1994 | A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. |
| March 18, 1942 | The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody. |
| March 29, 1930 | Heinrich Brüning is appointed Reichskanzler of Germany. |
| March 9, 1847 | Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz. |
| March 10, 1830 | The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created. |
| March 31, 1958 | In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. |
| March 24, 1878 | The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.[28][29] |
| March 28, 1801 | Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples. |
| March 13, 624 | The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. |
| March 7, 1138 | Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin. |
| March 24, 1999 | Kosovo War: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.[71] |
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