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12th March 1455 - first record of Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refered to the bible printed a year before

12th March 1609 - Bermuda became an English colony

12th March 1664 - New Jersey became an English colony

12th March 1755 - the first steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine

12th March 1930 - Mohandas Gandhi protest march British salt tax

12th March 1958 - British Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day

12th March 1994 - Church of England ordained 33 women priests

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14th March 1689 - Scotland dismissed William III and Mary Stuart as King and Queen

14th March 1794 - Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin machine, revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states

14th March 1900 - US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passeed the Currency Act

14th March 1903 - the first national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida

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15th March 44 BC - Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome

15th March 1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the New World

15th March 1744 - French King Louis XV declared war on Britain

15th March 1957 - Great Britain became the third nation to explode a nuclear bomb

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16th March 1867 - the first publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, The Lancet

16th March 1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered German re-armament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles

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17th March 1884 - John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight at Otay, California

17th March 1905 - Albert Einstein finished his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics

17th March 1921 - Dr Marie Stopes opened Britain's first birth control clinic in London

17th March 2016 - Archaeologists announced discovery of iron age warrior king buriel ground with 75 graves 2,500 years old in Pocklington, Northern England

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18th March 1766 - Britain repealed the Stamp Act, which caused outrage in colonial America and helped lead to the American Revolution

18th March 1850 - Henry Wells and William Fargo formed American Express in Buffalo

18th March 1890 - German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck resigned after 19 years, due to disagreements with German Emperor Wilhelm II

18th March 1891 - Britain linked to the continent by telephone

18th March 1922 - British magistrates in India sentenced Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience

18th March 1940 - Benito Mussolini and Italy joined Adolf Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain

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19th March 1932 - the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened on this day

19th March 1940 - failed British air raid on German base at Sylt

19th March 1943 - British 8th army opened assault on Mareth line, Tunisia

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20th March 1800 - Alessandro Volta reported his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London

20th March 1815 - Napoleon entered Paris after he escaped from Elba

20th March 1933 - Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed

20th March 1954 - the first newspaper vending machine used, Columbia Pennsylvania

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22nd March 1765 - Stamp Act passed; first direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville

22nd March 1873 - slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico, celebrated as Emancipation Day

22nd March 1888 - English Football League established

22nd March 1965 - US confirmed its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

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23rd March 1880 - flour rolling mill patented by John Stevens of Wisconsin

23rd March 1881 - the Boers and Britain signed peace accord

23rd March 1933 - Enabling Act, German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers

23rd March 1945 - Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bombed the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion

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25th March 1802 - Great Britain and the French Republic signed the Treaty of Amiens

25th March 1807 - British Parliament abolished slave trade throughout the British Empire

25th March 1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in California

25th March 1937 - Washington Daily News first US newspaper with perfumed advertising page

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26th March 1917 - British win a battle against Turks at Gaza

26th March 1926 - the first lip-reading tournament held in America

26th March 1934 - driving tests introduced in Britain

26th March 1942 - the first Eichmann transport to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps

26th March 1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announced vaccine to prevent polio

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28th March 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine

28th March 1799 - New York State abolished slavery

28th March 1854 - Britain and France declared war on Russia during the Crimean War

28th March 1939 - Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid fell to Francisco Franco

28th March 1942 - British naval forces raided Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire

28th March 1946 - Cold War, The United States State Department released the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power

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30th March 1856 - Russia signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Crimean War

30th March 1870 - 15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guaranteed right to vote regardless of race

30th March 1944 - 781 British bombers attacked Nuremberg

30th March 1945 - World War II - a defecting German pilot delivered a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans

30th March 1950 - Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, New Jersey

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2nd April 1792 - the Coinage Act is passed establishing the US Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime

2nd April 1801 - Napoleonic Wars, the British led by Horatio Nelson destroyed the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen

2nd April 1827 - US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, began manufacturing lead pencils

2nd April 1917 - US President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany

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4th April 1581 - Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford

4th April 1789 - first US Congress began regular sessions during George Washington's presidency at Federal Hall

4th April 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization signed in Washington, D.C.

4th April 1968 - US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee

4th April 1973 - World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opened in New York

4th April 1975 - Microsoft founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen

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5th April 1722 - the Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island

5th April 1621 - the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth on a return trip to England

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7th April 1827 - the English chemist John Walker invented wooden matches

7th April 1902 - Texas Oil Company formed

7th April 1923 - the Workers Party of America became officially the Communist Party

7th April 1948 - the World Health Organization formed by the United Nations

7th April 1980 - Jimmy Carter ended relations with Iran during hostage crisis

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