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31st March 1909: The end of the Bosnian Crisis

The Bosnian Crisis came to end with Serbia’s acceptance of the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by ...

30th March 1939: Batman makes his first appearance when Detective Comics #27 went goes on sale

Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, and first appeared in a story called ‘The Case of the Chemical Syndicate’ along with Commissioner ...

29th March 1974: Discovery of the Terracotta Army in Xi’an, China

The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, ...

28th March 1942: Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid by British forces in WW2

The raid by the Royal Navy and British Commandos was overseen by Combined Operations ...

27th March 1915: Typhoid Mary placed in permanent quarantine in New York

Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New ...

26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima ends after US Marines officially secure the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during the War in the Pacific

The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce fighting between around 21,000 Japanese troops and 110,000 ...

25th March 1306: Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scots

Robert I, better known as Robert the Bruce, was crowned King of Scots at ...

24th March 1721: Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates the Brandenburg Concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt

The concertos may have never even been performed because Christian Ludwig didn’t have good enough musicians to play the complex ...

23rd March 1806: The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins its return journey

The Lewis and Clark Expedition began its journey home, having crossed the western United ...

22nd March 1621: Hugo Grotius, the Dutch legal scholar, escapes imprisonment in Loevestein Castle concealed inside a book chest

Grotius was permitted to have books sent to him in prison, and these were transported in a large chest. Over time his guards became less vigilant regarding the chest’s contents which led his wife and maid-servant to propose a plan to smuggle him out by hiding him inside ...