Today in History
On This Day In History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Mar 30, 240 BC |
1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. |
Mar 30, 804 |
Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Munster |
Mar 30, 988 |
Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders |
Mar 30, 1282 |
The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers. |
Mar 30, 1296 |
Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England. |
Mar 30, 1422 |
Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple |
Mar 30, 1456 |
Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege |
Mar 30, 1474 |
Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland |
Mar 30, 1533 |
Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury |
Mar 30, 1603 |
Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish |
Mar 30, 1778 |
Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath |
Mar 30, 1796 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the construction of the heptadecagon |
Mar 30, 1814 |
Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon. |
Mar 30, 1814 |
Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification. |
Mar 30, 1822 |
Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory |
Mar 30, 1842 |
Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Ga) |
Mar 30, 1856 |
Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War |
Mar 30, 1858 |
Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Phila) |
Mar 30, 1863 |
Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king George of Greece |
Mar 30, 1864 |
Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas |
Mar 30, 1865 |
-4] Battle at 5 Forks Virginia |
Mar 30, 1866 |
Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride) premieres |
Mar 30, 1867 |
US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly) |
Mar 30, 1870 |
15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote regardless of race |
Mar 30, 1870 |
Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union |
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