Scott Allsop's Blog, page 152
March 23, 2020
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 ...
March 22, 2020
23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey last to be dissolved by Henry VIII
On the 23rd March 1540, Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved by Henry ...
March 21, 2020
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 ...
March 20, 2020
21st March 1556: Thomas Cranmer executed for heresy
On the 21st March 1556, Thomas Cranmer was executed for ...
March 19, 2020
20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established
By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the Spice Islands of the Indian ...
March 18, 2020
19th March 1962: Bob Dylan releases his eponymous debut album
On the 19th March 1962, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut ...
March 17, 2020
18th March 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia
The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers ...
March 16, 2020
17th March 1766: First Saint Patrick’s Day parade
On the 17th March 1766, the first recorded St Patrick's Day parade took place...in New ...
March 15, 2020
16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom
Anti-Semitic attacks spread across England and reached York in March ...
March 14, 2020
15th March 44BCE: Assassination of Julius Caesar
On the 15th March 44BCE, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was stabbed to death near to the Theatre of Pompey in ...
