1. 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the low chronology of the 18th dynasty).

2. 537 - Goths lay siege to Rome.

3. 843 - Icon veneration officially re-instated in Hagia Sophia cathedral in Constantinople.

4. 928 - Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.

5. 1343 - Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague (March 3, 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first archbishop of Prague.

6. 1387 - The Battle of Castagnaro begins.

7. 1502 - Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty, crowned shah of Persia (rules till 1524).

8. 1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X.

9. 1567 - Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel.

10. 1597 - Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, occupies Amiens, France.

11. 1641 - Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.

12. 1649 - The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.

13. 1665 - New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants' religious rights.

14. 1669 - Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000.

15. 1702 - The 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" publishes.

16. 1708 - Queen Anne withholds royal assent from the Scottish militia bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

17. 1744 - English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London.

18. 1779 - US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time).

19. 1789 - Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.

20. 1791 - Samuel Mulliken is 1st to obtain more than one US patent.

21. 1795 - Battle at Kurd la India: Mahratten beat Mogols.

22. 1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews.

23. 1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont.

24. 1824 - US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

25. 1829 - Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" is revived by Felix Mendelssohn, aged 20, conducting in Berlin, Germany.

26. 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile.

27. 1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

28. 1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first prime ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.

29. 1850 - Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania opens, 2nd female medical school in the US.

30. 1851 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice.

31. 1855 - Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners.

32. 1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution (US Civil War).

33. 1862 - Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellan as general-in-chief of the US army.

34. 1862 - Confederate General Stonewall Jackson begins evacuation of Winchester, Virginia.

35. 1863 - 25th Grand National: George Stevens wins his 2nd GN aboard 4/1 Emblem; winning mare's full sister Emblematic wins the following year.

36. 1864 - Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles killing at least 240, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

37. 1867 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris.

38. 1869 - The west first learns of the giant panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter.

39. 1872 - Construction of the Seven Sisters colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.

40. 1872 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa Prefecture.

41. 1882 - Fridtjof Nansen sets out on a sea voyage to study Arctic zoology.

42. 1882 - Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton, New Jersey.

43. 1888 - Great Blizzard of '88 strikes northeastern USA.

44. 1892 - 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts).

45. 1893 - Carlos Gardel and his mother, Berthe Gardès, arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

46. 1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar, over 400 die.

47. 1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.

48. 1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games.

49. 2004 - A series of bombings at 3 train stations and nearby areas in Madrid, Spain kills 192 and injures over 1,500.

50. 2011 - A magnitude 9.0 earthquake strikes off the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan, triggering a tsunami and causing widespread damage.