On March 30, 240 BC, Halley’s Comet made its first recorded perihelion passage. (Photo courtesy of NASA,...
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On March 29, 845, a 5,000-strong army of Danish Vikings invaded Frankish lands and only retreated after...
On March 28, 1535, the Cistercian Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) in Friesland was attacked and destroyed by a group...
On March 27, 196 BC, the Rosetta Stone and others like it were ordered to be inscribed...
On March 26, 1636, the University of Utrecht had its opening ceremony. Pictured is the university’s Academiegebouw...
On March 25, 1306, Robert the Bruce was crowned Robert I, King of Scots, soon after he...
March 24th is the birthday of Dr. Art Robinson, who was born in 1942. He has done...
On March 23, 1856, 18-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally produced the first synthetic aniline dye ‘mauveine’...
On March 22, 1941 the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington went into operation. — Benjamin Tyler...
March 21, 717: The Battle of Vincy. This was a pivotal engagement in the Frankish civil wars of...