16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom
Anti-Semitic attacks spread across England and reached York in March ...
16 Mar 20220s
15th March 44 BCE: Roman dictator Julius Caesar stabbed to death near the Theatre of Pompey in Rome
Casca was the first to strike and caused a stab wound to Caesar’s neck. He suffered a total of 23 stab wounds in the ...
15 Mar 20220s
14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA
Gold records were originally presented to artists by their own label, primarily as a form of self-congratulatory ...
14 Mar 20220s
13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement
Suffering from severe bleeding, the Tsar was taken to the Winter Palace where he died from his ...
13 Mar 20220s
12th March 1930: Mohandas Gandhi began the 240-mile Salt March to the coastal village of Dandi
Gandhi intended to produce salt from seawater to avoid paying tax and thus undermine Britain’s salt ...
12 Mar 20220s
11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas
Within 18 months the disease had become a pandemic that infected up to a third of the entire world’s ...
11 Mar 20220s
10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble
The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to ...
10 Mar 20220s
9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free
The long case eventually went before the Supreme Court who ruled that they had been unlawfully held and thus rebelled in a natural right to self-defense. The court set them ...
9 Mar 20220s
