Page 2: Historical Events In March - 20

1739  On this day in history nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.   

1739  On March - 20 eligio Celestino, composer   

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

1751  On March - 20 frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies   

1757  On this day in history 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  On this day in history john Braham, composer   

1780  On March - 20 sir Benjamin Truman   

1800  On March - 20 french army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, &advance to Cairo   

1800  French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo on March - 20.   

1804  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 on this day in history.   

1804  On March - 20 neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

1804  Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 on March - 20.   

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

1812  On this day in history george Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880   

1812  On this day in history jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52   

1813  Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High) on March - 20.   

1814  On this day in history prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands   

1815  Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule on this day in history.   

1816  US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions on March - 20.   

1820  On this day in history alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania   

1823  John Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 on March - 20.   

1825  On this day in history william Nelson Rector Beall, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1826  Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor on this day in history.   

1828  On March - 20 the birth of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet   

1828  On March - 20 henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)   

1829  Charles Albert White, composer on this day in history.   

1830  Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910 on this day in history.   

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

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

1833  Henry Southwick Perkins, composer on March - 20.   

1834  Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909) on this day in history.   

1846  Auguste Bender, writer on this day in history.   

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1469  On March - 20 birth of princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)   

1477  Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527) was born on this day in history.   

1502  On this day in history birth of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)   

1634  Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets) was born on this day in history.   

1644  On this day in history birth of ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)   

1680  On March - 20 birth of baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)   

1725  Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789) was born on this day in history.   

1728  On this day in history birth of franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist   

0687  Death of St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634) on this day in history.   

0842  Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies on this day in history.   

1191  On this day in history clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies   

1239  Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) on this day in history.   

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

1393  On March - 20 death of johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed   

1413  Death of King Henry IV of England (b. 1367) on March - 20.   

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