The March 20th is the 79e Jour of the Année (80e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

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9th century

13th century

  • 1255 : Foundation by Alphonse of Poitiers, brother of Saint-Louis, become by its marriage in 1229 with Jeanne, girl of Raymond VII, Master of the county of Toulouse and the county of Resident of Agen, the country house of Montreal-of-Gers the.

14th century

  • 1342 : Introduction in France of the Gabelle, tax on the salt, which causes many movements.

16th century

  • 1503 : Spain: The Instruction of Saragossa states series of measure aiming to the sedentarisation and the evangelization of the Indiens.

  • 1518 : Republic of Venice: A ceremony governs the installation of large the Retable of the Assumption of Titien, which the prior of Santa Maria dei Frari had ordered to him.

17th century

  • 1619 : Germanic Empire: With died of the emperor Matthias, it is his/her cousin Ferdinand II, king de Bohême since 1617 and of Hungary since 1618, which takes its succession.

18th century

  • 1739 : Nâdir Shâh takes the town of Delhi which it makes plunder and orders the massacre of 30.000 of its inhabitants.

  • 1778 : The France recognizes the independence of the Thirteen American Colonies.

  • 1796 : Europe (30 ventôse): The Directoire pushes back the formulated English peace proposals the 20 ventôse (March 18th).

  • 1800 : the army of Kléber crushes the Turks with Héliopolis and goes on Cairo.

19th century

  • 1814 : Arcis-on-Paddle (20-21). After having missed destroying the forces of Blücher, Napoleon is overcome by the troops of the Austrian Schwarzenberg.

  • 1815 : Paris: After a triumphal walk on Paris, Napoleon enters the capital. He takes again his place without having to meet too much opposition since his return of the isle of Elba.

  • 1816 : Portugal: Emperor of Brazil since 1807, date on which he had fled of the Portugal to escape the troops from Napoleon, Jean VI succeeds his mother, Marie Ière de Bragance. He will return in his country only in 1821.

  • 1848 : Following the scandal caused by its connection with adventurous Irish and Spanish dancer “ distorts ” Lola Montès ( Maria-Dolorès Eliza Gilbert ), the king of Bavaria Louis I {{er}} abdicates.

  • 1850 : Germany (March 20th - April 29th). Meeting with Erfurt of the Parliament dominated by the delegates of the States favorable to the Prussia. It consists of two rooms, one known as of the States with the representatives of the principalities and free cities, the other baptized Chambre of the people, elected according to the system of the “ three classes ”.

  • 1893 : in 1888, the Company of Panama Canal, in difficulty, wants to emit obligations with batch. The Company pours with “ chéquards ”, deputies and senators, bribes to obtain the authorization of the Parliament. In spite of that, the company must file for bankruptcy its in January 1889. An legal instruction is opened and, the December 16th 1892, Ferdinand de Lesseps is stopped: accused of swindle, he is condemned to a light sorrow, that the Court of appeal cancels. The lawsuit of the continued members of Parliament succeeds, this day , with a judgment: that of Baïlhaut, former minister for Public works, the only one to have acknowledged.

20th century

  • 1912 : Initial date of the launching of the Titanic . This date was pushed back because of the repair which has being carried out on the Olympic and which monopolized part of manpower working with the construction of the giant of the seas.

  • 1916 : The Alliés decide on a division of the Turkey.

  • 1934 : with Kiel, first tests of a Radar by the German researcher Rudolph Kuenhold.

  • 1942 : Constrained to move back in front of the advance of the Japanese troops, the general Douglas MacArthur evacuates the Filipino while declaring: “I will return” .

  • 1948 : Rupture enters the Alliés and the Soviet Union in Germany.

  • 1951 : in Argentinian, the military regime of Juan Peron exproprie the daily newspaper Prensa .

  • 1956 : After internal autonomy, the Tunisia obtains its total independence whose Habib Bourguiba becomes the first president, (except for the strategic port of Bizerte evacuated in 1962, to see the article Crise of Bizerte).

  • 1960 : Stupor, Just Fountain, the best footballer of the world breaks the leg. Its career is finished in full rise, at 27 years.

  • 1970 : The tanker Othello releases between 60.000 and 100.000 tons of fuel after a collision in bay of Tralhavet , Sweden.

  • 1981 : Isabel Peron, former president of Argentine is condemned to 8 years of prison for misuse of public money.

  • 1986 :

    • the president François Mitterrand appoints Jacques Chirac Prime Minister after the victory of the right-hand side to the legislative ones.
    • islamist Terrorist attack with the gallery " Not Show " Fields-Élysées: 2 died and 23 wounded.

  • 1991 : The 4 year old son of the singer and guitarist Eric Clapton loses the life while falling of the 53e stage of a building. The tragedy will inspire the interpreter and guitarist for his song Tears In Heaven .

  • 1996 : London admits that the Maladie of Creutzfeldt-Jacob at the man is probably related to the bovine spongiform Encéphalopathie, or " disease of the mad cow " ; the European Union imposes a Embargo on the English meat. The France and several other countries decide " to suspend any bovine meat importation coming from Great Britain ".

  • 1997 :

    • Election of François Pipe cleaner (1927-1997) with the French Academy, deceased before its official reception.
    • the largest kitty of the Loto is gained by only one player who empoche 150.077.770 francs.

  • 1998 :

    • in France, first festival of Internet.
    • Belgian justice condemns Louis Schweitzer, chairman of Renault, with a fine of 10 Belgian franc million (1,6 million FF) to have violated the law of Belgian work during the closing of the factory of Vilvorde.

  • 1999 : On board the Breitling To orbit, Switzerland Bertrand Piccard and the English Brian Jones buckle, above the Morocco, the first round the world tour in balloon without stopover, that is to say 44.000 km in nineteen days; they will be posed in Egypt.

  • 2000 :

    • Jean-Paul II has started by the Jordan the first pilgrimage in Holy Land of a pope for 36 years.
    • a Earthquake a magnitude of 4,5 on the open scales of Richter shakes is Turkey, and neither victim nor damage makes, with Senkaya .
    • the Paris Bourse, Amsterdam and Brussels announce their fusion within Euronext.
    • Beginning of the lawsuit of the escape bid the April 23rd 1998 from Marc Dutroux.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • a Chimiquier, the Balu , transporting eight thousand tons of Acid sulphuric, sinks in the the Bay of Biscay; its crew could be helped.
    • One of largest the Platform S oil of the world, damaged by a series of fatal explosions, dark in the Atlantic southern, with a hundred and twenty kilometers of the coasts Brazil iennes with on its board a million and half of liters of Crude oil and Gas oil. (see March 15th) To consult the site of the CEDAR

  • 2002 :
    • Whereas Israelis and Palestinians try to arrive to a Cessez-le-feu under the aegis of the American emissary Anthony Zinni, a new attack in the north of the Hebrew State, asserted by the Islamic Jihad, makes eight dead of which the Kamikaze.
    • Jose Maria Aznar, once finished his short speech in front of the the European Parliament, to Brussels and believing the extinguished microphone, lance “ what a connery I come to release! ” . Obviously all the Spanish journalists take again his conclusion.
    • Olympic champion of Snowboard in parallel giant slalom, Isabelle Blanc gains the World cup 2002 of the speciality.

  • 2003 :

    • the the United States and the Great Britain pass to the offensive against Iraq. The March 21st with 5:32, local time, one hour and half after the expiry of the Ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, the periphery of Baghdad essuie of strike targeted, first salvos of the baptized military intervention " Freedom of Iraq " promised by George W. Bush.
    • A few hours after the release of the bombardments on Baghdad, Jacques Chirac “regrets” the American attack, by wishing that “ these operations be fastest and the least fatal possible and that they do not lead to a humane catastrophe ”. The French government mobilizes itself against possible terrorist threats by reinforcing the Plan Vigipirate.
    • Three hours after the first strike American against its country, Saddam Hussein appears Iraqi on television to denounce " of the ashamed crimes against the Iraq and humanity " perpetrated by the the United States and the Great Britain and each one with " calls; to leave the sword " to defend the nation.
    • Putting between brackets their major divisions, Europeans adopt a Joint Declaration on the post-war period in Iraq and the need for entrusting to UNO the responsibility to coordinate the rebuilding of the Iraq.
    • Of the combat helicopters and a thousand of soldiers of the American army take part in an operation of great width intended to continue the combatants of Al-Qaïda and their allies Taliban S, in the south of the Afghanistan.
    • the China denounces an attack against the Iraq which " viol " international standards. The spokesperson of the Chinese ministry of the Foreign affairs Kong Quan declared that the beginning of the military offensive in Iraq was carried out " in spite of the opposition of the international community ".
    • In Africa, even in dramatic situations, one keeps the direction of humor. The example is given by it by Jean-Pierre Bemba, chief of the Liberation movement of Congo (MLC) whose one announces his death here and there. He declares ( Jean-Pierre Bemba ) that the advertisement of its death is largely exaggerated.

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Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Herbert de Derwentwater († 687), hermit in England.
  • twenty martyrs of the Monastery Mar Sheba S († 796).
  • Remi of Strasbourg (+ 783), bishop.

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