1. In 363, Roman Emperor Julian led 90,000 troops to campaign against the Sassanid Persia.

2. In 1046, Persian scholar Nasir Khosrow began a 7-year journey in the Middle East, which he later described in his book Safarnama.

3. In 1179, the 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opened in Rome.

4. In 1496, King Henry VII of England granted John Cabot a commission to explore for new lands.

5. In 1528, Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plundered The Hague.

6. In 1558, tobacco smoking was introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes.

7. In 1579, Betuwe joined the Union of Utrecht.

8. In 1616, Nicolaus Copernicus' astronomical work De Revolutionibus was placed on the Catholic Forbidden Index.

9. In 1623, the 1st American temperance law was enacted in Virginia.

10. In 1645, in the Battle of Jankau in Bohemia, Sweden defeated Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III.

11. In 1651, the South Sea dike in Amsterdam broke after a storm.

12. In 1684, Emperor Leopold I of Austria, Poland and Venice signed the Heilig Covenant of Linz.

13. In 1713, Handel's Jubilate had its first public rehearsal performance at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

14. In 1731, Mission San Francisco de la Espada, the first of the San Antonio Missions, was reestablished by Spanish missionaries on the bank of the San Antonio River.

15. In 1743, the 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, was published in Boston.

16. In 1746, Jacobite troops left Aberdeen.

17. In 1750, the 1st American production of Shakespeare's "altered" Richard III was held in NYC.

18. In 1766, Don Antonio de Ulloa took possession of the Louisiana territory from the French.

19. In 1770, the Boston Massacre occurred. British soldiers opened fire on a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them, killing 5 men, with Crispus Attucks being the first to die.

20. In 1774, John Hancock delivered the fourth annual massacre day oration, commemorating the Boston Massacre and denouncing the presence of British troops in Boston.

21. In 1783, King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski granted rights to the Jews of Kovno.

22. In 1784, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, was named President of the Board of Trade.

23. In 1793, French troops were defeated by Austrian forces and Liège was recaptured.

24. In 1795, Amsterdam celebrated the revolution on the Dam Square; the Treaty of Basel was signed and Prussia ended its war with France.

25. In 1803, the first newspaper in Australia, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, was published by government printer and ex-convict George Howe.

26. In 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B was premiered.

27. In 1820, the Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbade Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays.

28. In 1821, Monroe was the 1st US president to be inaugurated on March 5 because March 4 was a Sunday.

29. In 1824, the British officially declared war on Burma, starting the First Anglo-Burmese War.

30. In 1827, Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, the inventor of the battery, died at the age of 82. French mathematician and astronomer Laplace died at the age of 78.

31. In 1835, Samuel Colt invented the revolver.

32. In 1836, Samuel Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing Company manufactured the first pistol, the 36-caliber "Texas" model, in Paterson, New Jersey.

33. In 1840, the 2nd Grand National was held and Bartholomew Bretherton won aboard Jerry at 16/1 odds.

34. In 1841, the 1st continuous filibuster in the US Senate began, lasting until March 11.

35. In 1842, over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invaded Texas, briefly occupied San Antonio and then headed back to the Rio Grande.

36. In 1845, in the 7th Grand National, William Loft aboard Cure-All won in a record time of 10 minutes and 47 seconds.

37. In 1848, Louis Antoine Garnier-Pagès was named French Minister of Finance.

38. In 1849, Zachary Taylor was sworn in as the 12th US president.

39. In 1850, the Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales was opened.

40. In 1853, the piano company Steinway & Sons was founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City.

41. In 1856, the Covent Garden Opera House in London was destroyed by fire; Georgia became the 1st state in the US to regulate railroads.

42. In 1858, abolitionists established "Crispus Attucks Day" in Boston.

43. In 1860, during the unification of Italy, the Duchy of Parma, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Romagna voted in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.

44. In 1862, Union troops under Brigadier General Wright occupied Fernandina, Florida during the US Civil War.

45. In 1864, the 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge was held.

46. In 1868, Arrigo Boito's opera Mefistofele premiered in Milan; the stapler was patented in England by C. H. Gould; the US Senate organized to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson.

47. In 1872, George Westinghouse Jr. patented the triple air brake for trains.

48. In 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes was publicly inaugurated as the 19th president of the United States.

49. In 1894, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, became First Lord of the Treasury (the official title of the UK Prime Minister); Seattle authorized the 1st municipal employment office in the US.

50. In 1896, the Italian governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reached Massawa; Italian Premier Francesco Crispi resigned.