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12TH MARCH IN HISTORY

By Harmeet Singh on March 12, 2022

1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to 1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) 1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische 1945 USSR returns…

11TH MARCH IN HISTORY

By Harmeet Singh on March 11, 2022

1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 1824 US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair 1897 A meteorite enters the earth’s atmosphere and explodes over…

10TH MARCH IN HISTORY

By Harmeet Singh on March 10, 2022

1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral 1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver…

8th March in history

By sangeeta Saxena on March 8, 2022

1618 – Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion. 1702 – England’s Queen Anne took the throne upon the death of King William…

7th March in History

By Harmeet Singh on March 7, 2022

1814 Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor…

6th March in History

By Harmeet Singh on March 6, 2022

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures 1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council 1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese 1947 XB-45, 1st US…

5th March in History

By Harmeet Singh on March 5, 2022

1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber “Texas” model 1945 World War II: The Battle of the Ruhr begins. 1948 US rocket flies record 4800…

4th March in History

By Harmeet Singh on March 4, 2022

1238 Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu…

28th February in history

By sangeeta Saxena on February 28, 2022

202 BC – coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han dynasty’s rule over China…

27th February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 27, 2022

380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity…

26th February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 26, 2022

747 BC – Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy’s Nabonassar Era. 364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by…

21st February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 21, 2022

1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery 1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected…

20th February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 20, 2022

1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark 1547 – Edward VI of…

19th February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 19, 2022

197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. 356 – Emperor Constantius II…

18th February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 18, 2022

1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements…

17th February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 17, 2022

364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route…

16th February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 16, 2022

116 – Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia. 1646 – Battle…

15th February in history

By Harmeet Singh on February 15, 2022

590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in…

30th December in History

By sangeeta Saxena on December 30, 2021

1906 – Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy 1906 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later…

1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire “Yuan” (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China. 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent…

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