1. In 1413, King Henry IV of England, the first monarch of the Lancastrian dynasty, died after years of illness, and his eldest son, Henry, ascended the English throne.

2. In 1416, the 6th predicted perihelion passage of Halley's Comet occurred.

3. In 1345, there was a conjunction of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, which scholars at the University of Paris thought was the "cause of the plague epidemic" known as the Black Death.

4. In 1525, the parliament of Paris began the pursuit of Protestants.

5. In 1569, the Duke of Alva led the "tenth penning" in Les Ponts de Cé.

6. In 1598, Philippe Emmanuel, the Duke of Mercœur, the governor of Brittany, submitted to King Henry IV of France at Angers.

7. In 1600, the Linköping Bloodbath took place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.

8. In 1602, the United Dutch East India Company (VOC) was formed.

9. In 1616, Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment and set out to seek gold in Guyana.

10. In 1627, France and Spain signed an accord for fighting Protestantism.

11. In 1648, King Charles I of England first tried to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight by climbing out of a window but got stuck.

12. In 1664, scientist Robert Hooke was appointed professor of geometry at Gresham College, London.

13. In 1697, Willem de Vlamingh returned to Batavia after exploring "South Land".

14. In 1703, 46 of the 47 surviving ronin in the Akō Incident committed seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death in Edo.

15. In 1739, Iranian ruler Nadir Shah occupied Delhi in India and sacked the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

16. In 1760, the Great Fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.

17. In 1774, the British Parliament passed the first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the damages following the Boston Tea Party.

18. In 1800, Alessandro Volta reported his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, the president of the Royal Society of London.

19. In 1800, the French army defeated the Turks at Heliopolis and advanced to Cairo.

20. In 1804, a royalist conspiracy against France's First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte was uncovered. One conspirator, General Jean Victor Moreau, escaped to America, while the Duc d'Enghien, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon - Condé, was seized in Baden, condemned by a commission acting under Bonaparte's orders without regard for the law, and shot at Vincennes on the night of March 20.

21. In 1813, Lady Hester Stanhope set out for the ancient city of Palmyra, becoming the first Western woman to visit.

22. In 1814, Prince Willem Frederik became the monarch of the Netherlands.

23. In 1815, Napoleon entered Paris after escaping from Elba and began his 100 - day rule.

24. In 1816, the US Supreme Court affirmed its right to review state court decisions.

25. In 1819, London's famous Burlington Arcade opened, the world's first shopping arcade.

26. In 1833, the US and Siamese (now Thailand) signed a commercial treaty.

27. In 1848, King Louis I of Bavaria abdicated to marry dancer Lola Montez.

28. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in Boston.

29. In 1854, the Republican Party was founded by anti - slavery activists within the US Whig Party opposed to the Kansas - Nebraska Act.

30. In 1854, the Boston Public Library opened in Massachusetts, the first large free municipal library in the US.

31. In 1861, an earthquake completely destroyed Mendoza, Argentina.

32. In 1863, the Battle of Pensacola, Florida, took place, and the city was evacuated by the Federals.

33. In 1865, it was the second day of the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina.

34. In 1865, Michigan authorized workers' cooperatives.

35. In 1868, the Jesse James Gang robbed a bank in Russellville, Kentucky, of $14,000.

36. In 1878, Postmaster - General John Delaney and meteorologist John Higgins installed Newfoundland's first telephone.

37. In 1883, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property was signed.

38. In 1883, John Matzeliger of Suriname patented the shoe - lacing machine.

39. In 1885, the Yiddish theater opened in New York with a Goldfaden operetta.

40. In 1886, the first AC power plant in the US began commercial operation in Massachusetts.

41. In 1888, the premiere of the very first Romani - language operetta was staged in Moscow, Russia.

42. In 1890, the General Federation of Women's Clubs was founded in the United States.

43. In 1890, German Emperor Wilhelm II fired Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

44. In 1891, the 53rd Grand National was held, and Irish jockey - trainer Harry Beasley won aboard 4/1 Come Away.

45. In 1892, the 54th Grand National was held, and Captain Roddy Owen won aboard 20/1 chance Father O'Flynn.

46. In 1896, marines landed in Nicaragua to protect US citizens.

47. In 1896, there was an uprising in Matabeleland.

48. In 1897, the first US Orthodox Jewish rabbinical seminary (RIETS) was incorporated in New York.

49. In 1897, France signed a treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia, establishing a common border between French - held Djibouti and Ethiopia.

50. In 1899, at Sing Sing Prison, Martha M. Place was sentenced to become the first woman executed in the electric chair.