Events that happened in March – Can you name the year?
All these events happened in March – But in which year?
The values in brackets is the leeway that I give you.
Example: 1904 Russo (Russian) – Japanese War starts. (10 years)
Exact Answer 1904, leeway 1894-1914.
- 1711 ‘The Spectator’ begins publishing (London) (60 Years)
- 1912 Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a plane (10 Years)
- 1969 The first test flight of the supersonic Concorde (10 Years)
- 1917 Tsar Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (10 Years)
- 1681 William Penn receives Pennsylvania’s charter from Charles II (75 Years)
- 1836 Samuel Colt patents the first revolver. (30 Years)
- 1836 Santa Anna defeats Travis and Bowie at The Alamo (25 Years)
- 1889 Hoffman patented aspirin (30 Years)
- 1969 Golda Meir elected prime minister of Israel (7 Years)
- 1702 Queen Anne succeeds William III (William of Orange) (100 Years)
- 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris (10 Years)
- 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine (50 Years)
- 1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes first phone call (30 Years)
- 537 Goths descend on Rome (200 Years)
- 1988 British £1 note ceases to be legal tender (7 Years)
- 1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony (100 Years)
- 1789 US Post Office established (50 Years)
- 1781 William Hershel discovers the planet Uranus (100 Years)
- 1794 Whitney patents the cotton gin (50 Years)
- 44 BC Julius Caesar stabbed to death in the senate (200 Years)
- 1968 My Lai Massacre Vietnam (5 Years)
- 1996 Mike Tyson Knocks out Frank Bruno (6 Years)
- 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted (25 Years)
- 1902 Caruso releases his first record Vesti la giubba, it became the first record to sell 1 Million copies. (20 Years)
- 1964 The St Bernard Tunnel opens, joining Switzerland and Italy (20 Years)
- 1976 Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery (10 Years)
- 1935 Persia officially renamed Iran (50 Years)
- 1457 Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book (150 Years)
- 1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast (20 Years)
- 1957 US army demobs last homing pigeon (20 Years)
- 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburg Concerts (75 Years)
- 1924 Greece becomes a republic (50 Years)
- 1958 Elvis Presley joins the US army ( 5 years)
- 1896 First Olympics of the modern era held in Athens (5 Years)
- 1934 Driving tests introduced in UK (15 Years)
- 1958 Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union (5 Years)
- 1979 Three mile island nuclear leak near Harrisburg Pennsylvania (10 Years)
- 1798 Switzerland forms Republic ( 200 years)
- 2001 Queen Mother dies peacefully in her sleep (3 Years)
- 1959 Dalai Lama escapes Chinese and flees to India (20 Years)
Bonus Which date in March are these?
Ides of March – 15th March
St David’s Day – 1st March
St Patrick’s Day – 17th March
Inauguration Day – 4th March
