#TodayInHistory – March 19
March 19 – Some Important Events on this day 1279 👉🏼 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China 1452 👉🏼 Frederick III […]
#TodayInHistory – March 18
March 18 – Some Important Events on this day 37 👉🏼 Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor 1123 […]
#TodayInHistory – March 16
March 16 – Some Important Events on this day 597 BC 👉🏼 Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king 1527 👉🏼 Battle of Khanua: Mughal Emperor Babur defeats […]
#March 15, 1889: the power of nature blows gunboat diplomacy out of the water in Apia Harbour, Western Samoa
Gunboat diplomacy was at its height in 1889 and on this day, March 15, tension was high with an act of war seemingly imminent. Three American warships (the sloop-of-war USS […]
#TodayInHistory – March 15
March 15 – Some Important Events on this day 44 BC 👉🏼 Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of […]
#TodayInHistory – March 14
March 14 – Some Important Events on this day 1369 👉🏼 Battle of Montiel: King of Castille and Leon Peter of Castile (Peter the Cruel) with support from England is […]
#March 13, 1770: Daniel Lambert – the heaviest person ever to have lived
Nobody knows what was wrong with Daniel Lambert who was born on this day, March 13 1770. But he went from being a slim, athletic, sports-loving guy to a very […]
#TodayInHistory – March 13
March 13 – Some Important Events on this day 624 👉🏼 Battle of Badr: Muhammad’s Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan army 1591 👉🏼 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccan army […]
#TodayInHistory – March 12
March 12 – Some Important Events on this day 538 👉🏼 Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome, retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands […]
#TodayInHistory – March 11
March 11 – Some Important Events on this day 1425 BC 👉🏼 According to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty, Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt dies. 🇪🇬 843 👉🏼 […]
#TodayInHistory – March 10
March 10 – Some Important Events on this day 241 BC 👉🏼 Battle of the Aegates Islands: the Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an […]
#March 9, 1974: the incredible Hiroo Onoda’s One-Man war finally ends
Nearly 30 years after the end of the Second World War Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered on this day, March 9 1974. His story is curious: he had been […]
#TodayInHistory – March 9
March 9 – Some Important Events on this day 141 BC 👉🏼 Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne of the Han Dynasty in China […]
#March 8, 1971: Frank Sinatra photographs the fight of the century
It was described as “the Fight of the Century”: Muhammad Ali, who had been stripped of his World Heavyweight Championship and suspended from boxing for three years after refusing to […]
#TodayInHistory – March 8
March 8 – Some Important Events on this day 1531 👉🏼 Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury 1867 👉🏼 British North […]
#TodayInHistory – March 7
March 7 – Some Important Events on this day 161 👉🏼 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement […]