Year 235 » Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
Year 673 Calendar » Emperor Emperor Tenmu Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum throne at the Asuka, Yamato Imperial Palaces Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka, Yamato Asuka.
Year 1206 Calendar » Patriarch Michael IV of Constantinople or Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Year 1600 Calendar » The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
Year 1616 Calendar » Walter Raleigh called Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
Year 1760 Calendar » The "List of historic fires called Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
Year 1815 Calendar » After escaping from Elba, Napoleon I of France called Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
Year 1848 Calendar » Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: Monarch called King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
Year 1854 Calendar » The Republican Party (United States) known as Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Year 1861 Calendar » An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
Year 1883 Calendar » The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
Year 1888 Calendar » The premiere of the very first Romen Theatre Forerunners of Romen Theatre e.g Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
Year 1913 Calendar » Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Kuomintang named Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
Year 1916 Calendar » Albert Einstein publishes his general relativity named general theory of relativity.
Year 1922 Calendar » The USS named Langley or CV-1 is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
Year 1933 Calendar » Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau Concentration Camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the Battle of the Philippines (1942) named fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
Year 1948 Calendar » With a American Federation of Musicians e.g Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
Year 1951 Calendar » Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
Year 1952 Calendar » The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
Year 1964 Calendar » The wiktionary:Precursor named precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
Year 1972 Calendar » The Troubles: A Provisional Irish Republican Army known as Provisional IRA car bomb kills seven and injures 148 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first of many car bomb attacks by the group.
Year 1974 Calendar » Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Anne, Princess Royal or Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall (London) named The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
Year 1980 Calendar » The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the England e.g English coast.
Year 1985 Calendar » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
Year 1985 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Year 1987 Calendar » The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, Zidovudine known as AZT.
Year 1993 Calendar » The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb Warrington bomb attacks called kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
Year 1995 Calendar » A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 13 and wounds 1,300 persons.
Year 1999 Calendar » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
Year 2003 Calendar » 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
Year 2006 Calendar » Over 150 Chadian military Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel United Front for Democratic Change UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Heads of state of Chad Chadian president Idriss Deby.
Year 2012 Calendar » At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a 20 March 2012 Iraq attacks e.g wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq.
Year 2014 Calendar » Four suspected Taliban members 2014 Kabul Serena Hotel attack e.g attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least 9 people.