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374 Episoade

1. 24th March 1944: The ‘Great Escape’ takes place from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia

   Publicat: 24.03.2025
2. 23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII

   Publicat: 23.03.2025
3. 22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

   Publicat: 22.03.2025
4. 21st March 1871: Otto von Bismarck formally appointed first Chancellor of the German Empire

   Publicat: 21.03.2025
5. 20th March 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his Hundred Days as ruler of France following his escape from Elba

   Publicat: 20.03.2025
6. 19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

   Publicat: 19.03.2025
7. 18th March 1921: Kronstadt Rebellion ends following a final assault by Bolshevik forces

   Publicat: 18.03.2025
8. 17th March 1861: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy under the rule of Victor Emmanuel II

   Publicat: 17.03.2025
9. 16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

   Publicat: 16.03.2025
10. 15th March 1848: Hungarian Revolution of 1848 begins in Pest, marking the start of a nationwide movement against Habsburg rule

    Publicat: 15.03.2025
11. 14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA

    Publicat: 14.03.2025
12. 13th March 624: Battle of Badr sees the first major engagement between the early Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh tribe of Mecca

    Publicat: 13.03.2025
13. 12th March 1938: Nazi German troops cross the border to annex Austria in an event known as the Anschluss

    Publicat: 12.03.2025
14. 11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas

    Publicat: 11.03.2025
15. 10th March 1762: The execution of Jean Calas prompts debates on religious intolerance and judicial injustice in France

    Publicat: 10.03.2025
16. 9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free

    Publicat: 09.03.2025
17. 8th March 1736: Nader Shah formally crowned as the ruler of Iran, marking the start of the Afsharid dynasty

    Publicat: 08.03.2025
18. 7th March 1936: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army under Adolf Hitler

    Publicat: 07.03.2025
19. 6th March 1933: Eleanor Roosevelt holds her first press conference as First Lady of the United States

    Publicat: 06.03.2025
20. 5th March 1946: Winston Churchill describes the post-war division of Europe as an ‘Iron Curtain’ in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in Fulton, Missouri

    Publicat: 05.03.2025