Year 307 » After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great e.g Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
Year 627 » Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan ibn Harb or Abu Sufyan.
Year 1146 » Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII of France called Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
Year 1492 » Isabella I of Castile known as Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
Year 1561 » The city of San Cristóbal, Táchira is founded.
Year 1717 » A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
Year 1774 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
Year 1822 » Chios Massacre named The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
Year 1854 » Commodore (United States) Commodore Matthew Perry (naval officer) Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda, Shizuoka Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
Year 1866 » The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
Year 1877 » The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō Takamori e.g Saigō army in Ōita Prefecture known as Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
Year 1885 » The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
Year 1889 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
Year 1899 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, Capture of Malolos named was captured by American forces.
Year 1903 » Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
Year 1906 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
Year 1909 » Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
Year 1909 » Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Year 1910 » Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
Year 1913 » The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonz
Year 1917 » The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
Year 1918 » Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
Year 1918 » March Days named Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
Year 1921 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
Year 1930 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
Year 1931 » An 1931 Nicaragua earthquake named earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
Year 1931 » TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
Year 1933 » The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
Year 1942 » World War II: Battle of Christmas Island called Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
Year 1949 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Provinces of Canada named Province of Canada.
Year 1951 » Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
Year 1957 » Upper Volta Territorial Assembly election, 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony French Upper Volta Upper Volta are held. After the elections Unified Democratic Party PDU and Voltaic Democratic Movement MDV form a government.
Year 1958 » In the Canadian federal election, 1958 or Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada or Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
Year 1959 » The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
Year 1966 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
Year 1979 » The last British soldier leaves the Malta known as Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
Year 1980 » The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
Year 1985 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
Year 1986 » Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
Year 1990 » Approximately Poll Tax Riots or 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
Year 1992 » The USS Missouri BB-63 6, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
Year 1994 » The journal 'Nature (journal) or Nature' reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete 'Australopithecus afarensis' skull.
Year 2004 » Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush e.g ambushed.