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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 ...

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 ...

21st March 1556: Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed heresy

Cranmer’s execution in 1556 for heresy was intended to act as way to discredit ...

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 ...

19th March 1962: Bob Dylan releases his eponymous debut album

On the 19th March 1962, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut ...

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 ...

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 ...

16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

Anti-Semitic attacks spread across England and reached York in March ...

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 ...

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 ...