Historical Events in March, Month of March Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 6, 1967 | Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. |
| March 3, 1924 | The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk. |
| March 31, 1885 | The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate. |
| March 18, 1944 | Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers. |
| March 19, 1284 | The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England. |
| March 6, 961 | Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete. |
| March 15, 1848 | A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party. |
| March 20, 1890 | Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II. |
| March 24, 1720 | Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February.[11] |
| March 19, 1944 | World War II: The German army occupies Hungary. |
| March 8, 1126 | Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. |
| March 8, 1844 | King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. |
| March 13, 1943 | The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. |
| March 30, 1841 | The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens. |
| March 22, 1784 | The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. |
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