March 17 โ Some Important Events on this day
45 BC ๐๐ผ In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda
432 ๐๐ผ Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland. And this is the traditional date.
โ๏ธRead the article about St. Patrick Day.
1337 ๐๐ผ Edward the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England
1521 ๐๐ผ Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines ๐ต๐ญ
1762 ๐๐ผ 1st St Patrickโs Day parade in NYC
1829 ๐๐ผ Final performance by famous clown Joseph Grimaldi at a benefit performance at Sadlerโs Wells, London. The most famous clown of them all and the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era (1811-1820), in the early 1800s, he expanded the role of Clown in the harlequinade that formed part of British pantomimes, notably at the Drury Lane, Sadlerโs Wells and Covent Garden theatres. Grimaldi became so dominant on the London comic stage that the harlequinade role of Clown became known as โJoeyโ, and both the nickname and Grimaldiโs whiteface are used by clowns still today. He died in May 31, 1837 at 58 and the coroner recorded that he โdied by the visitation of Godโ.
1845 ๐๐ผ Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
1860 ๐๐ผ Six years after the forcible ending of Japanโs isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship
1861 ๐๐ผ Italy is unified into a single kingdom under Victor Emmanuel II following the campaigns led by Giuseppe Garibaldi ๐ฎ๐น
1898 ๐๐ผ John Philip Holland, father of the Modern Submarine, achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes. Developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy.
1901 ๐๐ผ At a show in Paris 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings cause a sensation, 11 years after his death ๐จ
1905 ๐๐ผ Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics
1938 ๐๐ผ The Italian Air Force, in support of Francisco Franco, bombs Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War.
By 1938, Spainโs vicious civil war had begun to reach its close, with the Nationalist forces making important gains across Spain. By the middle of the year Barcelona was cut off from Madrid and it was clear the Republicans could not win the war. Thus, foreign involvement in the war was important from the beginning. Just as Adolf Hitler had thrown his Condor Legion into action to help Francisco Franco, his fascist Italian allies under Benito Mussolini had done the same. By 1939 the war was over and Franco would rule Spain for another thirty years.
1939 ๐๐ผ Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out (Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945)
1942 ๐๐ผ Beลลผec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30,000 Lublin Polish Jews
1961 ๐๐ผ Jaguar head William Lyons debuts the first E-Type model at the Geneva International Motor Show. ๐