March 19 in History

The Pope writes to the Barons asking them not to rebel. The Pope writes to John supporting in support of the Barons

Wales has the status of a crown colony & is administered by 3 sheriffs. Settles laws & administration in Wales by bringing Wales under Government from England. Passes a statute to regulate the King's exchequer

Alexander III died after falling from his horse, leaving Scotland without an adult monarch.

Alexander III appoints Margaret successor, the only descendent of William the Lion

The grand master of the Templars, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake

The grand master of the Templars, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake

Francis, Duke of Guise is assassinated and Catherines fears that the war might drag on so a truce is agreed in the Edict of Amboise

The Edict of Amboise also known as the Edict of Pacification, is signed at the Chateau of Amboise by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France

The Treaty of Amboise officially ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion

The Treaty of Amboise restores peace to France by guaranteeing the Huguenots religious privileges and freedoms

The royal government grants limited toleration and ends the first war

L'Hospital supports the legal settlement ending the first religious war

Catherine de Medici negotiates the Edict of Amboise after Guise's death

Catherine issues the Edict of Amboise to end the first war

The Edict of Amboise also known as the Edict of Pacification, is signed at the Chateau of Amboise by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France

The Treaty of Amboise restores peace to France by guaranteeing the Huguenots religious privileges and freedoms

Coligny accepts the pacification while Huguenot military strength is weakened

Conde accepts peace terms after the first war of religion

Orders all Jesuits and all other Catholic priests to leave the country, and reimposed the collection of fines for recusancy

Pym supports legislation financing operations in Ireland through future land grants.

Charles establishes his court at York while gathering northern political support.

Charles establishes his court at York while gathering northern political support.

Leads a siege of Aberdeen & captures some leading Covenanters

Leads a siege of Aberdeen & captures some leading Covenanters

The Commons abolishes the House of Lords, against Cromwell's will

The House of Lords is abolished, Cromwell wished to keep it as an advisery body

The House of Lords is abolished, Cromwell wished to keep it as an advisery body

Supports Gallican articles limiting papal authority in France.

Executes his final will several months before his death.

Napoleon began the siege of Acre after advancing north from Jaffa, but Ottoman and British-supported defenders resisted repeated assaults.

Forced to abdicate after a Republican Revolution

Appointed Chief Minister President of Prussia

Appointed Chief Minister President of Prussia

When revolution breaks out in Prussia, part of the larger Revolutions of 1848, the king initially moved to repress it with the army, but later decided to recall the troops and place himself at the head of the movement

Publishes a statement explaining the causes of the break with the German newspaper Social-Demokrat.

Publishes alliances with south German states, German Armies are under Prussian control

Publishes alliances with south German states, German Armies are under Prussian control

Construction begins from del Villar's neo-Gothic design.

The foundation stone of the Sagrada Familia is laid.

Appointed President of Venezuela

The Jørgen Løvland Government ends in Oslo, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Norway.

Begins the First Gunnar Knudsen Government in Oslo and serves as Prime Minister of Norway.

Supports abolition of the veto at the Free Trade Hall. Attempts to rally the Liberals to support reform of the Lords

Helps organize the first International Women's Day in Germany.

Supports nationwide Social Democratic events demanding votes for women.

Mobilizes working women through the party's first International Women's Day.

Campaigns for women's suffrage through coordinated socialist demonstrations.

After walking a further 20 miles, the three remaining men made their final camp on 19 March, 11 miles (18 km) short of One Ton Depot, but 24 miles (38 km) beyond the original intended location of the depot.

Bowers reaches the final camp with Scott and Wilson while a worsening blizzard prevents further progress.

Wilson reaches the final camp with Scott and Bowers approximately eleven miles short of One Ton Depot.

After the 18 March losses, Fisher tells the War Council that the sinking of major ships cannot be dismissed.

Lowell Observatory captures faint images of Pluto, but the object is not recognised as the predicted planet.

Churchill reviews the severe losses suffered during the main Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles.

De Robeck suspends another immediate battleship assault after the heavy losses of 18 March.

Keyes argues that determined minesweeping could still open a path through the straits.

Fisher repeats his view that forcing the Dardanelles by naval power alone could cost about twelve battleships.

The Senate rejects League membership after the Versailles dispute.

Enters exile after the suppression of the rebellion.

The League Council finds that Germany has violated its treaty obligations by remilitarizing the Rhineland.

Poland forces Lithuania to open its borders

Resigns after the Russian invasion of Finland

Daladier resigns after the Russian invasion of Finland. Daladier fails to unite Parliament or the people behind his mobilization for the "phony war"

Forms the Battle of Atlantic Committee

Appointed Commander of the Burma Corps

Appointed Commander of the Burma Corps

Begins to defend the Prome-Toungoo Line

Arrives in Budapest after Germany occupies Hungary.

Personally directs the SS deportation team assigned to Hungarian Jewry.

German troops enter Hungary unopposed

The Germans march into Hungary unnoposed

Hitler announces a scorched earth policy

Proposes transferring hospitals to national ownership.

Introduces the National Health Service Bill.

Appointed Prime Minister of Belgium, 3rd term

Nationalist forces capture Yan’an, the principal Communist base, though Communist field forces avoid decisive destruction.

Lee entered Clark Elementary School on March 19, 1948, after leaving Clayton Public School during his mother's divorce proceedings.

Appointed Prime Minister of Poland, 2nd term

Appointed President of Japan, 2nd term

Schuman became the first President of the European Parliamentary Assembly created for the new European Communities.

Lee applied to Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland for the spring 1960 term, listing philosophy, psychology, ideology, and writing among his interests.

Releases his debut Columbia album Bob Dylan.

The first Columbia album mixes folk, blues, gospel and two originals.

Includes Song to Woody on his debut album.

The National Assembly expands the Temporary Provisions, allowing the President to establish a body for policies concerning suppression of Communist rebellion.

The Pierre Harmel Government ends in Brussels, concluding this period as Prime Minister of Belgium.

Begins the First Vanden Boeynants Government in Brussels and serves as Prime Minister of Belgium.

Delivers a tough Budget aimed at restoring financial confidence after devaluation.

Roy Jenkins presents a severe Budget raising approximately 923 million pounds in additional taxation.

Presents a restrictive Budget designed to reduce demand and restore financial stability.

Students at Howard University signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the US, students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university

Students at Howard University signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the US, students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university

Duties on petrol, tobacco and alcoholic drinks are increased to raise revenue and restrict consumption.

Family allowances are increased while child tax allowances are reduced to redirect assistance toward families with children.

Purchase tax rates are increased as part of a fiscal package designed to reduce consumer spending.

The Budget raises Selective Employment Tax by 50 percent to restrain domestic demand and encourage exports.

A one-off special charge on higher personal incomes is introduced as part of the post-devaluation programme.

Convicted Watergate burglar and ex-CIA agent James Mc Cord, still facing sentencing, wrote a letter to U.S.

District Judge John Sirica.

Judge Sirica urged Mc Cord to cooperate fully with the Senate Watergate Committee, which was about to begin its investigation.

This record states: In the letter, Mc Cord stated that he had been pressured to plead guilty and remain silent, that he had perjured himself during the trial, that the break-in was not a CIA operation, and that other.

This record states: as yet unnamed Government officials, were involved.

Convicted Watergate burglar and ex-CIA agent James Mc Cord, still facing sentencing, wrote a letter to U.S.

District Judge John Sirica.

Judge Sirica urged Mc Cord to cooperate fully with the Senate Watergate Committee, which was about to begin its investigation.

This record states: In the letter, Mc Cord stated that he had been pressured to plead guilty and remain silent, that he had perjured himself during the trial, that the break-in was not a CIA operation, and that other.

This record states: as yet unnamed Government officials, were involved.

Convicted Watergate burglar and ex-CIA agent James McCord, still facing sentencing, wrote a letter to U.S. District Judge John Sirica.

In the letter, McCord stated that he had been pressured to plead guilty and remain silent, that he had perjured himself during the trial, that the break-in was not a CIA operation, and that other, as yet unnamed Government officials,

were involved. Judge Sirica urged McCord to cooperate fully with the Senate Watergate Committee, which was about to begin its investigation

Convicted Watergate burglar and ex-CIA agent James Mc Cord, still facing sentencing, wrote a letter to U.S.

District Judge John Sirica.

Judge Sirica urged Mc Cord to cooperate fully with the Senate Watergate Committee, which was about to begin its investigation.

This record states: In the letter, Mc Cord stated that he had been pressured to plead guilty and remain silent, that he had perjured himself during the trial, that the break-in was not a CIA operation, and that other.

This record states: as yet unnamed Government officials, were involved.

Convicted Watergate burglar and ex-CIA agent James Mc Cord, still facing sentencing, wrote a letter to U.S.

District Judge John Sirica.

Judge Sirica urged Mc Cord to cooperate fully with the Senate Watergate Committee, which was about to begin its investigation.

This record states: In the letter, Mc Cord stated that he had been pressured to plead guilty and remain silent, that he had perjured himself during the trial, that the break-in was not a CIA operation, and that other.

This record states: as yet unnamed Government officials, were involved.

Releases the film version of Tommy.

Stars as Tommy in Ken Russell's film.

The restrictions on US citizens traveling to Cuba lapse

The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 425 demanding that Israel withdraw from Lebanon. The Israeli army takes control of almost all of Lebanon south of Litani River

The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 425 demanding that Israel withdraw from Lebanon

The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 425 demanding that Israel withdraw from Lebanon

Davidoff sends 40 workmen on naval vessel Bahia Buen Suceso to dismantle Leith whaling station, the workmen fail to ask permission to land from the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken and hoist the Argentine flag

Davidoff sends 40 workmen on naval vessel Bahia Buen Suceso to dismantle Leith whaling station, the workmen fail to ask permission to land from the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken and hoist the Argentine flag

Davidoff sends 40 workmen on naval vessel Bahia Buen Suceso to dismantle Leith whaling station, the workmen fail to ask permission to land from the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken and hoist the Argentine flag

Davidoff sends 40 workmen on naval vessel Bahia Buen Suceso to dismantle Leith whaling station, the workmen fail to ask permission to land from the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken and hoist the Argentine flag

Argentine workers land at Leith and raise an Argentine flag.

Leads a small Argentine military detachment accompanying the scrap-metal party at Leith Harbour.

Some 8,000 police guard mines roadblocks across Midlands in the biggest police operation in a labor dispute since the 1926 general strike

Some 8,000 police guard mines roadblocks across Midlands in the biggest police operation in a labor dispute since the 1926 general strike

Announces similar reforms to those by Gorbachev in Russia

A demonstration of 10,000 in Tashkent wish to make Uzbek their state language

A demonstration of 10,000 in Tashkent wish to make Uzbek their state language

The Budget increase VAT to 17.5% to finance cuts in poll tax

Shed Seven enter the UK singles chart with Mark, beginning the York band's run of Britpop-era hits.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee becomes Prime Minister following the 1998 general election.

The Commonwealth suspends Zimbabwe from its councils following the disputed election.

Zimbabwe is suspended from Commonwealth councils following the disputed election.

The invasion is preceded by an air strike on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad

The invasion is preceded by an air strike on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad

The invasion is preceded by an air strike on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad

Explains remaining inspection tasks despite the withdrawal from Iraq.

Briefs the Security Council on UNMOVIC's draft work programme.

The Curse of Steptoe, a BBC TV play about Brambell and his co-star Harry H Corbett, is broadcast on digital BBC channel BBC FOUR, featuring Phil Davis as Brambel

Authorities restrict foreign media access while presenting the government's account of the unrest.

Swain leads Hubble observations detecting methane in HD 189733b, the first organic molecule identified in an exoplanet atmosphere.

Announces that British forces are taking part in international military action under the United Nations mandate.

Sohail Aman becomes Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force.

Resigns from cabinet during the referendum period and campaigns for Leave.

Mujahid Anwar Khan becomes Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force.

Agrees a draft transition period with the European Union.

Announces a nationwide quarantine in Argentina.

Announces emergency restrictions and surveillance measures during the pandemic.

Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu becomes Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force.

The President chairs the Cabinet of Ministers in the absence of a prime minister

His direct head-of-government role ends as his son becomes President

As President, Serdar Berdymukhamedov assumes the head-of-government role

Berdymukhamedov steps down as President after fifteen years in office

Serdar Berdymukhamedov becomes President of Turkmenistan

Presidential authority passes from Gurbanguly to Serdar Berdymukhamedov

Schlegel helps present DESI Data Release One, opening public access to a vast spectroscopic map used for precision expansion and dark-energy research.

Palanque-Delabrouille helps present the three-year DESI analysis combining BAO with complementary cosmological data to test whether dark energy changes over cosmic time.

Levi reports that DESI's first three years strengthen indications that dark energy may evolve with time when combined with other cosmological measurements.

Mellier's Euclid Consortium releases the mission's first survey data, opening a large galaxy dataset that prepares the way for future dark-energy cosmology analyses.

Birth of Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer

The future SS official is born to a German family.

Adolf Eichmann is born in Solingen, Germany.

Birth of Patrick Joseph McGoohan

Leaves his 3 year old granddaughter Margaret, the "Maid of Norway", as his heir. Death of Alexander III, rides a horse off a cliff

Death of Jacques de Molay, executed

Jean du Barry seigneur de la Renaudie is killed during the Amboise conspiracy

Death of William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton

Death of Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton

Death of Spencer Compton, killed at the Battle of Hopton Heath

Gheorghiu-Dej dies, opening a succession struggle in the communist leadership.

Death of John De Lorean

Death of David Paul Scofield

Defeated by a Royalist force under the Earl of Northampton & General Henry Hastings

Forced to retreat to Stone then back to Cheshire

Leads a charge against the Roundheads after Northampton is killed

Defeats the Roundheads under John Gell & William Brereton but killed in battle. Accompanied by three of his sons, marches out with his troops Compton engages Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet and Sir William Brereton at Hopton Heath

Forced to retreat to Chartley & then to Uttoxeter

Defeated by a Royalist force under the Earl of Northampton & General Henry Hastings

Helps defeat the Roundheads under John Gell & William Brereton

Forms the Battle of Atlantic Committee

Crowned Queen of Scotland

Becomes the last emperor crowned in Rome by a pope.

Crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Nicholas V.