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391 Épisodes

1. 21st March 1871: Otto von Bismarck formally appointed first Chancellor of the German Empire

   Publié: 21/03/2025
2. 20th March 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his Hundred Days as ruler of France following his escape from Elba

   Publié: 20/03/2025
3. 19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

   Publié: 19/03/2025
4. 18th March 1921: Kronstadt Rebellion ends following a final assault by Bolshevik forces

   Publié: 18/03/2025
5. 17th March 1861: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy under the rule of Victor Emmanuel II

   Publié: 17/03/2025
6. 16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

   Publié: 16/03/2025
7. 15th March 1848: Hungarian Revolution of 1848 begins in Pest, marking the start of a nationwide movement against Habsburg rule

   Publié: 15/03/2025
8. 14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA

   Publié: 14/03/2025
9. 13th March 624: Battle of Badr sees the first major engagement between the early Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh tribe of Mecca

   Publié: 13/03/2025
10. 12th March 1938: Nazi German troops cross the border to annex Austria in an event known as the Anschluss

    Publié: 12/03/2025
11. 11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas

    Publié: 11/03/2025
12. 10th March 1762: The execution of Jean Calas prompts debates on religious intolerance and judicial injustice in France

    Publié: 10/03/2025
13. 9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free

    Publié: 09/03/2025
14. 8th March 1736: Nader Shah formally crowned as the ruler of Iran, marking the start of the Afsharid dynasty

    Publié: 08/03/2025
15. 7th March 1936: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army under Adolf Hitler

    Publié: 07/03/2025
16. 6th March 1933: Eleanor Roosevelt holds her first press conference as First Lady of the United States

    Publié: 06/03/2025
17. 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

    Publié: 05/03/2025
18. 4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII

    Publié: 04/03/2025
19. 3rd March 1938: First commercial quantities of oil discovered in Saudi Arabia after engineers drill Dammam Well No. 7

    Publié: 03/03/2025
20. 2nd March 1791: Frenchman Claude Chappe sends the first message by semaphore machine

    Publié: 02/03/2025