24th March 1989: Start of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound
Exxon Valdez had only recently departed the Valdez Marine Terminal when the captain, Joseph Hazelwood, left Third Mate Gregory Cousins in charge of steering the vessel while he retired to his ...
24 Mar 20220s
23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII
Abbot Robert Fuller surrendered the abbey and its property on 23 March 1540, and within just a few years all the buildings except for the parish nave had been demolished or had collapsed due to ...
23 Mar 20220s
22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris
Put on for an audience of 200 invited attendees at the “Society for the Development of the National Industry”, the reaction to the moving black-and-white pictures caught the brothers by ...
22 Mar 20220s
21st March 1556: Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, executed for heresy
Cranmer’s execution in 1556 for heresy was intended to act as way to discredit ...
21 Mar 20220s
20th March 1890: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany formally accepts Otto von Bismarck’s resignation
Bismarck submitted his resignation on 18 March, two days before formally leaving office, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing his ...
20 Mar 20220s
19th March 1962: Bob Dylan releases his eponymous debut album
On the 19th March 1962, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut ...
19 Mar 20220s
18th March 1314: Execution of Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar
The Knights Templar was formally abolished by Pope Clement V, but Molay's execution secured his place as one of the Order’s most famous ...
18 Mar 20220s
17th March 1766: The first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in the city of New York
Irish soldiers serving in the British Army led the first recorded Saint Patrick's Day parade which, due to the high number of Irish immigrants in New York, quickly became an annual ...
17 Mar 20220s
