Historical Events in March, Month of March Events
Here is a list of some historical events in March. You can learn What major event happened in March?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 27, 1942 | The Holocaust: Nazi Germany and Vichy France begin the deportation of 65,000 Jews from Drancy internment camp to German extermination camps. |
| March 4, 1994 | Space Shuttle program: the Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-62. |
| March 2, 537 | Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off. |
| March 29, 1809 | King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. |
| March 20, 1926 | Chiang Kai-shek initiates a purge of communist elements within the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou. |
| March 29, 1930 | Heinrich Brüning is appointed Reichskanzler of Germany. |
| March 17, 180 | Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius. |
| March 23, 2020 | Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19. |
| March 27, 2014 | Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict. |
| March 31, 1889 | The Eiffel Tower is officially opened. |
| March 30, 1861 | Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium. |
| March 22, 2017 | Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.[29][30][31] |
| March 19, 1920 | The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919). |
| March 29, 2004 | Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members. |
| March 30, 1856 | The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War. |
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