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Events Throughout History

Historical Events for March 28th

  • Year 37 » Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
  • Year 193 » Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassination called assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
  • Year 364 » Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Valens e.g Flavius Valens co-emperor.
  • Year 845 » Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
  • Year 1776 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
  • Year 1794 » Allies under the prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Coburg defeat France French forces at Le Cateau-Cambrésis Le Cateau.
  • Year 1795 » Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern Fiefdom or fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
  • Year 1802 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
  • Year 1809 » Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
  • Year 1814 » War of 1812: The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland e.g United Kingdom defeats de United States Navy in a Battle of Valparaiso known as Battle off Valparaíso, Chile.
  • Year 1854 » Crimean War: France and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or Britain declare war on Russia.
  • Year 1860 » First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
  • Year 1862 » American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico, Union (American Civil War) called Union forces stop the Confederate States of America named Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
  • Year 1871 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
  • Year 1883 » Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
  • Year 1889 » The Yngsjö murder in Yngsjö, Sweden: Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
  • Year 1910 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
  • Year 1913 » Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention known as Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
  • Year 1920 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
  • Year 1930 » Constantinople and Ankara named Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
  • Year 1933 » The Imperial Airways biplane 'City of Liverpool' is believed to be the first airline lost to sabotage when a passenger 1933 Imperial Airways Dixmude crash or sets a fire on board.
  • Year 1939 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after Siege of Madrid e.g a three-year siege.
  • Year 1941 » World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean Sea, United Kingdom named British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italy named Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
  • Year 1942 » World War II: St Nazaire Raid: In occupied France, United Kingdom British naval forces successfully St Nazaire Raid raid the Germany German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
  • Year 1946 » Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
  • Year 1951 » First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mao Khe, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
  • Year 1968 » Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
  • Year 1969 » Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
  • Year 1970 » 1970 Gediz earthquake e.g Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 Moment magnitude scale or magnitude earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260.
  • Year 1978 » The Supreme Court of the United States called US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in 'Stump v. Sparkman', 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary Human sterilization called sterilization and judicial immunity.
  • Year 1990 » President of the United States e.g President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
  • Year 1994 » In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
  • Year 1994 » BBC Radio 5 (former) known as BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
  • Year 1999 » Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
  • Year 2000 » Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
  • Year 2005 » The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.

World History for the Month of March