The March 17th is the 76e Jour of the Année (77e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

first century BC

  • -44 : Vote of a law of Amnistie to the Sénat for the meurtiers of Jules César which was assassinated the March 15th 44 av. J. - C..

2nd century

  • 180: Vienna: Marc Aurèle dies of the Peste in Pannonia. Remained only emperor, Commode gives up the projects of conquest and makes peace.

5th century

14th century

15th century

16th century

  • 1526 : The king François Ier is released by the Spanish which retained it captive.

18th century

  • 1776 : The American insurrectionists oblige the English forces to evacuate Boston.

  • 1778 : By signing a treaty of friendship and trade with the young people the United States, the France recognizes the new State.

  • 1790 : Paris: With an aim of giving again confidence with the public towards the Assignat S, the Constituante decides more to guarantee them on the goods of the clergy. They are from now on paper money. The goods of the clergy available will be sold via the municipalities.

19th century

  • 1805 : Italy: The Italian République is set up in Royaume of Italy, whose Napoleon is the sovereign. Hereditary kingdom, the Italy will remain however independent. Crowned with Milan the May 28th, it names his son-in-law Eugene de Beauharnais, viceroy.

  • 1825 : the Caribbean: The Spanish part of the island of Santo Domingo proclaims its independence under the name of Dominican Republic.

  • 1830 : Frederic Chopin gives its first concert.

  • 1847 : Vanves: Grandville disappears. He worked as satirical draftsman for newspapers such as the Caricature and the Hullabaloo. But the illustrations constitute more the most remarkable share of its work. He builds a strange world that Baudelaire will compare with “ an apartment where the disorder would be systematically organized ”.

  • 1851 : A. of Gasparis discovers Psyché, one of the larger asteroids ever observed with 250 kilometers in diameter.

  • 1861 : Turin: In less than two years, Cavour carried out the Italian unit. Indeed, in March 1860, these are 426.000 Emiliens (Parma, Modena, Romagna) against 760 which approve their annexation by the Piedmont; 336.000 Tuscan against 15.000 make in the same way. In front of such a unanimity, Napoleon III must be inclined. At the end of the war of Italy, the Lombardy is granted the Piedmont. At the conclusion of the Forwarding of the Thousand, Victor-Emmanuel is Master of the Ombrie, the Marches, the Sicily and Naples, which, they also, decides massively for the unit around its kingdom. To sit the Sardinian dynasty with the head of the Italy, Cavour joins together the first Italian Parliament with Turin the February 18th 1861. The poll of the March 18th devotes Victor-Emmanuel II like “ king d' Italie by the grace of God and the will of the Nation ”. Only the Venetian kingdom and Rome still escape its influence.

  • 1876 : Marshall Brooks carries the world records of high jump to 1.83 Mr.

  • 1877 : Ottoman Empire: Following the promulgation in 1876 of a Constitution, opening of the first session of the Parliament.

  • 1896 : The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambric Grâce (Northern) is set up in minor basilica by the Pape Leon XIII.

20th century

  • 1910 : Paris: A gyratory direction is founded Place of the Harmony.

  • 1911 : China: Law prohibiting the smokings of opium as well as the ill treatments with the prisoners.

  • 1921 : Promulgation of a Constitution in Poland.

  • 1931 : Germany: the bishop of Paderborn condemns the catholics members of NSDAP.

  • 1950 : Willie Pep preserves its world title of the Feathers vis-a-vis Ray Famechon .

  • 1960 : A plane Lockheed L-188 of the company Northwest the East Airlines crashe in Such City and keep silent its 63 passengers and team members.

  • 1968 : The Foreign Minister of Great Britain, Brown, resigns the very same day of his nomination.

  • 1970 : The principal defendant is the major general Samuel Koster , superintendent of the military academy of West Point.

  • 1973 : An officer of the Kampuchean air force conceals a plane and attacks the presidential palace of Phnom-Penh: the marshal Lon Nol, Head of the State, is unscathed, but a score of people are killed.

  • 1977 : Angolan troops penetrate with the Zaire and occupy the important mining center of Kolwezi.

  • 1979 : A plane Tupolev 104 of the Aeroflot crashe with Moscow and keep silent its 59 passengers and team members.

  • 1985 :

    • Baghdad affirms that the Iraqi forces killed 15.000 Iranian soldiers during the 36 previous hours.
    • a Séisme of 6,6 shakes the Chile. It is the third of the 5 large seisms which shook the country this year there.

  • 1986 : Jean-Marc Boivin connects in 20:00 the 4 faces north of the Massif of Mont Blanc: Green the , the Lines , Short the and the Large Jorasses.

  • 1988 : A Colombian plane is crushed, killing 137 people.

  • 1990 : The Scotland carries out its third large slam with the Five Nations tournament.

  • 1994 :

    • the Bosnian government and the Serbes of Bosnia sign, under the aegis of UNO, an far-sighted agreement the opening of roads inside and around Sarajevo.
    • Beginning of the lawsuit of Paul Touvier, chief of the Milice Lyon is born during the Second world war.
    • to celebrate its bicentenary, Schweppes exposes a giant bottle: 3 m in height, 3,5 m of circumference and 2250 liters of capacity.

  • 1998 : Zhu Rongji is elected at the post of Prime Minister by the Chinese Parliament.

  • 1999 :

    • the pope launches its first CD " Abba Lord's Prayer " as well as a video. Jean-Paul II reads there psalms, Gospels or prayers on bottom of African musics, Slavic liturgies or Celtic flutes.
    • the International Olympic committee (CIO) excludes the six members implied in the corruption scandal relating to attribution from the OJ of winter of 2002 with Salt Lake City.

  • 2000 :

    • Ford repurchases the mark Land Rover with BMW.
    • Dr. Michel Garretta , former director of the National center of the blood transfusion (CNTS), is put in examination in the financial shutter of the file known as of contaminated blood.
    • the sect of the " Restoration of the ten commands of God " directed by Joseph Kibwitere orders the collective suicide by the fire from 400 to 500 people including 80 children in Uganda.
    • Lars Frolander carries the world records of the 100 m butterfly to 50 S 44.
    • Roman Sloudnov carries the world records of the 100 m brews to 58 S 51.
    • Therese Alshammar carries the female world records of the 100 m freestyle to 52 S 17.
    • Nicolas Fontaine , Québécois athlete, becomes champion of the World cup of hot-dogging for the fourth year of at a stretch.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • the forces Macedonians ram the rebels albanophones to fight against the insurrection.
    • After the fall of the January 17th, OPEC decides the March 17th a new reduction of its production of 1 million barrels per day (approximately 4%), to stabilize the price of the barrel around 25 dollars.

  • 2002 : For the Holy Patrick, saint of the Irish, the brewer Guinness decides to use a novel mode of publicity while offering to a certain number of Pub, in the world, of the green contact lenses for the barmands and waiters of the Pubs.

  • 2003 :

    • the the United States, the Great Britain and the Spain withdraw their draft Resolution on the Iraq, thus renonçant to obtain a support of UNO for a war in Iraq; the president George W. Bush gives a 48 hours deadline to Saddam Hussein to leave the Iraq, or else an military intervention will be launched against its country.
    • Robin Cook, British Minister for the Relations with the Parliament resigns of its station to protest against the position of alégence of the Great Britain to the the United States in the problem of the Iraq.
    • PEN Hadow share of the Canada to reach the magnetic North pole, only and without assistance. It arrives there the May 19th 2003.
    • France: The two legislative assemblies (Parliament and Senate) assemble themselves in Congress to ratify the constitutional revisions on the decentralization and the European warrant for arrest.
    • the raft in reed, " Viracocha II " , leaves Vina del Mar (Chile) to try the crossing of the Pacific of is in west and to rejoin the Australia in six months of navigation.
    • Business Elf: beginning of the Elf lawsuit in front of the magistrates' court of Paris.

  • 2005 :

    • Élection of Rene Girard with the French Academy with armchair 37.
    • the Palestinian factions joined together with the Cairo agrees to prolong the Cessez-le-feu with Israel until end 2005 and n the other hand requires the end of Israeli violences against the Palestinians and the release of the prisoners.

  • 2007 : Clap of thunder announcing a love at first sight after 15 years of waiting

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Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Festival of Saint-Patrick: National festival Irish.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

See too

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