Events that happened in March – Can you name the year?
All these 40 events happened in March – But in which year?
1st ‘ The Spectator’ begins publishing (London) (60 Years)
1st Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a plane (10 Years)
2nd The first test flight of the supersonic Concorde (10 Years)
3rd Tsar Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (10 Years)
4th William Penn receives Pennsylvania’s charter from Charles II (75 Years)
5th Samuel Colt patents the first revolver. (30 Years)
6th Santa Anna defeats Travis and Bowie at The Alamo (25 Years)
6th Hoffman patented aspirin (30 Years)
7th Golda Meir elected prime minister of Israel (7 Years)
8th Queen Anne succeeds William III (William of Orange) (100 Years)
8th Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris (10 Years)
9th Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine (50 Years)
10th Alexander Graham Bell makes first phone call (30 Years)
11th Goths descend on Rome (200 Years)
11th British £1 note ceases to be legal tender (7 Years)
12th Bermuda becomes an English colony (100 Years)
12th US Post Office established (50 Years)
13th William Hershel discovers the planet Uranus (100 Years)
14th Whitney patents the cotton gin (50 Years)
15th Julius Caesar stabbed to death in the senate (200 Years)
16th My Lai Massacre Vietnam (5 Years)
16th Mike Tyson Knocks out Frank Bruno – Dy no what I mean Harry? (6 Years)
17th Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted (25 Years)
18th Caruso releases his first record: Vesti la giubba, it became the first record to sell 1 Million copies. (20 Years)
19th The St Bernard Tunnel opens, joining Switzerland and Italy (20 Years)
20th Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery (10 Years)
21st Persia officially renamed Iran (50 Years)
22nd Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book (150 Years)
23rd Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast (20 Years)
23rd US army demobs last homing pigeon (20 Years)
24th Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburg Concerts (75 Years)
24th Greece becomes a republic (50 Years)
24th Elvis Presley joins the US army ( 5 years)
25th First Olympics of the modern era held in Athens (5 Years)
26th Driving tests introduced in UK (15 Years)
27th Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union (5 Years)
28th Three mile island nuclear leak near Harrisburg Pennsylvania (10 Years)
29th Switzerland forms Republic ( 200 Years)
30th Queen Mother dies peacefully in her sleep (3 Years)
31st Dalai Lama escapes Chinese and flees to India (20 Years)
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Bonus: Which date in March are these events?
Ides of March (3 days)
St David’s Day (3 days)
St Patrick’s Day (3 days)
Inauguration Day (3 days)
