Historical Events In March - 20

1739  Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne on March - 20.   

1739  On March - 20 eligio Celestino, composer   

1750  On this day in history martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)   

1751  Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies on March - 20.   

1757  On March - 20 johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60   

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  John Braham, composer on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history 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   

1804  On this day in history neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

1804  On March - 20 ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47   

1811  On this day in history george Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)   

1812  George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 on this day in history.   

1812  Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52 on March - 20.   

1813  On this day in history matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)   

1814  Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands on this day in history.   

1815  On March - 20 napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule   

1816  On March - 20 uS Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions   

1820  Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania on March - 20.   

1823  On this day in history john Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896   

1825  William Nelson Rector Beall, Brig General (Confederate Army) on March - 20.   

1826  On this day in history carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor   

1828  On this day in history the birth of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet   

1828  Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler) on this day in history.   

1829  On March - 20 charles Albert White, composer   

1830  On this day in history eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910   

1833  On this day in history uS &Siam conclude commercial treaty   

1833  US & Siam sign commercial treaty on March - 20.   

1833  On March - 20 henry Southwick Perkins, composer   

1834  Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909) on March - 20.   

1846  Auguste Bender, writer on March - 20.   

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1469  On this day in history birth of princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)   

1477  On March - 20 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  On this day in history birth of abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)   

1728  Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist was born on March - 20.   

0687  On this day in history death of st. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).   

0842  On March - 20 alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies   

1191  Clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies on March - 20.   

1239  On March - 20 death of hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)   

1351  Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies on this day in history.   

1393  Death of Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed on this day in history.   

1413  On March - 20 death of king Henry IV of England (b. 1367)   

1415  On March - 20 henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45