The March 12th is the 71e Jour of the Année (72e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

7th century

  •    604: The people of Rome cry the death of the pope Gregoire Ier Large the, assembled on the throne of holy Pierre in 590, whereas the Peste devastation Rome.

11th century

  • 1088 : Election and dedication of (157ème) the pope Urbain II.

12th century

13th century

16th century

18th century

19th century

  • 1809 : Persian: The England sign with the Persian a treaty which constrained French to leave the country.

  • 1848 : Rising of the students with Vienna.

  • 1867 : Napoleon III withdraws his support for the emperor Maximilien of Mexico, which will be made prisoner and shot.

  • 1888 : A terrible storm falls down on the North-East of the the United States, making more than 400 died and leaving some 125 centimeters of snow.

20th century

  • 1912 : A provisional government, chaired by Sun Yat-SEN is formed with Nankin in République of China. (pinyin: zhōnghuámíngúo)

  • 1918 : Paris is bombarded by German planes.

  • 1920: Berlin: Beginning of the attempt at putsch against the Republic of Wolfgang Kapp. The engagements will last thirteen days.

  • 1921 : Soviet Union: The world war then civil and measurements of nationalization of the “ Communism of war ” involved a complete disorganization of the Russian economy. The famine is worsening and the winter 1920 - 1921 is hard, in particular in the cities. The taking away in kind imposed on the campaigns to try to assist the supply of the cities cause the anger of the peasants. To try to put an end to a cut growing between the political power and the agricultural world, Lénine proposes, this day , a new policy. It makes it adopt the March 15th, at the time of Xe Congress of the Communist party. It is the beginning of NEP (Nouvelle economic policy).

  • 1928 : Malta: The island becomes a British Dominion.

  • 1940 : The Finland sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union, to which it yields the Isthme of Karelia and banks of the Lac Ladoga.

  • 1947 : The US president Harry S. Truman says that the the United States must stop the projection of Communism in the world.

  • 1950 : in Belgium, referendum in favor of the return of the king Léopold III.

  • 1951 : First publication of the cartoon Dennis The Threatens ( Denis the Mischievousness ).

  • 1956 : The French Parlement grants to Guy Mollet the special capacities in Algérie.

  • 1966 : in Indonesia, the president Sukarno transfer “under the threat” capacity to the general Suharto.

  • 1967 : With the second round of legislative, in France, tight victory of the right-hand side.

  • 1968 : The Mauritius, British possession, reaches independence.

  • 1985 :

    • with the embassy of Turkey, with Ottawa, three Armenian terrorists kill a guard, take hostages and go four hours later.
    • American-Soviet Talks on the space weapons, the intercontinental and intermediate missiles, with Geneva.

  • 1986 : The Spanish approve by Référendum the maintenance of their country within NATO.

  • 1988 : A scuffle in a football stadium makes more than 90 dead with the Nepal.

  • 1992 :

    • Maurice becomes a republic in the the Commonwealth Britannique
    • the tanker " Aegian Sea " (Greece) fails and takes fire close to Corogne in Spain: 66.000 tons of oil are poured and 200 km of coasts are polluted.

  • 1993 :

    • a series of car bomb attacks to Bombay (called Mumbai since 1995) made 300 dead and more than one thousand of wounded in space the one hour and half.
    • the voters of the Principauté of Andorra approve by Référendum the adoption of the first Constitution which will lead them to independence.
    • Alain Gautier gains the race with the veil around the world as a recluse without stopover: the Vendée Globe.

  • 1994 : The Église Anglican orders 32 women priests.

  • 1995 : For the third time of at a stretch, superb the Surya Bonaly spleen more high step of the championship of the world of figure skating.

  • 1997 : Canada: The Supreme court statue that the dance contact tariffed is indecent, within the meaning of the Canadian law.

  • 2000 :

    • in Spain, the party of the first outgoing minister Jose María Aznar gains the legislative ones easily.
    • Morocco: Towards the emancipation of the women: project for the integration of the women towards the working life.
    • the pope Jean-Paul II request forgiveness for all the sins made by the catholics during the centuries without quoting neither the crusades, neither enquiry nor the holocaust.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • In a final decision, WHO gives reason to the France and the European Union, which banish the Amiante because of its toxicity.
    • At the time of a exercise to the Kuwait, a bomb released by an American plane kills by error five Americans and a New Zealander.
    • Charles Revet, for the General advice of Seine-Maritime sign the act of purchase (150 million FF) of the English port of Newhaven. It wishes the resumption of the traffic transmanche Dieppe - Newhaven.
    • a Séisme of 6,7 on the open scales of Richter shakes Sumatra without making neither victim, nor damage.
    • Two Seism S a magnitude of 4,8 and 4,6 on the open scales of Richter, shakes the center of Taiwan.

  • 2002 :

    • the Safety advice of the United Nations adopts a resolution approving for the first time the existence of a Palestinian State at the side of Israel and calls at the end of violences between Israéliens and Palestinians.
    • the astronomers have just detected a Astéroïde fifty meters in diameter - enough imposing to destroy a town of intermediate size - whereas it had just passed very close to the Ground four days before, at a distance of 463.000 kilometers.

  • 2003 :

    • Assassination of Zoran Đinđić, the Prime Minister of the Serbia, a republic of the Balkans in the south-east of the Europe.
    • the the World Health Organization lance an alarm concerning a new virus. Baptized SARS (for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) or atypical Pneumonia, it will make more than 700 dead and more than 8.100 patients in a few weeks, in particular in China, starting point of the Pandémie.
    • In France, spectacular escape from the gangster Antonio Ferrara (Card-indexed with the organized crime), from the Prison of Fresnes (the Valley-of-Marne, attacked with the Weapon of War by ten individuals. Dominique Perben, then Minister of Justice, goes to the prison of Fresnes and qualifies this escape from “operation of the military type”.
    • the National Assembly and the Sénat adopt definitively very disputed project of law of reform of the ways of voting regional and European , marked by the " blow of force" of 49-3.
    • restaurants of the Room of the Representatives of the Congress Re-bâptisent " fried potatoes French fries" (chips) in " freedom fries" and " French toast" in " Freedom toast". The republican deputy of the Ohio Bob Ney, which directs the charged commission of the administrative needs for the Room of the representatives would be at the origin of this new example of American stupidity.
    • daN Foley, representative Republican with the congress for Roswell, proposes to institute in the American State of the New Mexico one day special in the honor of the extraterrestrial visitors " passed, present and futurs".

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Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Catholic saints of the day

  • Justine (XIII {{E}} - XIV {{E}} centuries)

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Sacrificed Dimitri the († 1289), king of Georgia.

See too

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