March 29 in History

Northumberland, Clifford, Roos, and Dacre, central figures in Lancastrian court power, died or fled, ending the house's domination of northern England.

On receiving news of the Lancastrian defeat, Henry fled into exile in Scotland with his wife and son.

The Battle of Towton severely reduced the House of Lancaster's power in England.

They were later joined by Somerset, Roos, Exeter, and the few Lancastrian nobles who escaped from the battlefield.

This record states: Edward turns his attention to consolidating his rule over the country, winning over the people and putting down the rebellions raised by the few remaining Lancastrian diehards.

This record states: He knighted several of his supporters and elevated several of his gentry supporters to the peerage; Fauconberg was made the Earl of Kent.

This record states: The Battle of Towton Moor put an end (for the time being) to disputes over the countrys state of leadership since the Act of Accord.

This record states: The English people were assured that there was now one King.

Reaches Coventry where he is able to offer Battle to the Earl of Warwick

Parliament confirms Henry VIII's royal style including King of Ireland, Defender of the Faith and Supreme Head of the Church of England and Ireland.

Parliament confirms Henry VIII's style as Defender of the Faith and Supreme Head of the Church of England and Ireland.

The King's Style Act makes it treason to attempt to deprive Henry VIII of his royal titles and religious style.

Elizabeth is restored to the line of succession after Mary, without reversing her illegitimacy.

Mary is restored to the line of succession after Edward, without reversing her illegitimacy.

The Act places Prince Edward first in the line of succession as Henry VIII's male heir.

The Third Succession Act receives royal assent, revising the Tudor succession settlement.

The Treason Act allows treasons committed outside the king's dominions to be tried within England.

Peace with France is publicly proclaimed in England following the Treaty of Boulogne.

Baz Bahadur is defeated by Mughal forces and flees Malwa.

Waller defeats Hopton's Royalist army at Cheriton and gains control of much of Hampshire for Parliament.

Assents to the Test Act. All public office holders must take public communion in the Church of England

Kisses William III's hand as his gradual political rehabilitation gains momentum.

Receives the allegiance of the Finnish estates and confirms Finland's religion, laws and traditional privileges.

Issues the Pragmatic Sanction allowing his daughter to inherit the Spanish crown.

Mangal Pandey's attack at Barrackpore exposes deep unrest among Bengal Army sepoys before the wider revolt.

Mangal Pandey attacks British officers at Barrackpore, becoming an early symbol of the 1857 uprising.

The last Mughal ruler is deposed

The Constitution of 1901 strengthened the presidency and reorganized the federal states.

Secures passage of the Coal Mines Minimum Wage Act.

Secures passage of the Coal Mines Minimum Wage Act.

Creates district boards to set minimum underground wage rates.

Dies with Wilson and Bowers near One Ton Depot.

Writes his final diary entry near One Ton Depot.

Scott writes his final diary entry while the surviving polar party remains trapped by a blizzard near One Ton Depot.

Creates district boards to establish minimum underground wage rates.

Scott, Wilson and Bowers die in their tent soon afterward.

Addresses the Reichstag on reparations and German foreign policy shortly before the Genoa Conference.

Chancellors Bruning, Papen, Schleicher and Hitler are all Presidentially appointed dictatorships

Heinrich Bruning is appointed the successor of Chancellor Muller by Paul von Hindenburg after months of political lobbying by General Kurt von Schleicher on behalf of the military

Chancellors Bruning, Papen, Schleicher and Hitler are all Presidentially appointed dictatorships.

The new Government is expected to lead a political shift towards conservatism, based on the emergency powers granted to the Reichspresident by the constitution, since it had no majority support in the Reichstag.

Appointed Prime Minister of Poland, 1st term

The new Government is expected to lead a political shift towards conservatism, based on the emergency powers granted to the Reichspresident by the constitution, since it had no majority support in the Reichstag. Chancellors Bruning, Papen, Schleicher and Hitler are all Presidentially appointed dictatorships

The Nazi regime bans The Testament of Dr Mabuse after its release is blocked.

Ends appeasement of Germany by commiting Britain to defend Poland. Embarks on policy which leads to British declaration of war against Germany

Embarks on policy which leads to British declaration of war against Germany

Cabinet decides to double the territorial force

Restores international navigation after wrecks from the Suez conflict are cleared.

Reopens the Suez Canal under Egyptian administration after wrecks from the invasion are cleared.

Leaves court without conviction on the treason charges.

The court rejects the state high treason case.

Is acquitted with the remaining Treason Trial defendants.

Is acquitted at the conclusion of the Treason Trial.

Appointed President of Argentina after the overthrow of Arturo Frondizi

McCone recommended that the United States disassociate itself from unauthorized Cuban exile raids and take steps to prevent their continuation.

Viet Cong terrorists bomb the U.S. embassy in Saigon

Appointed President of Ecuador

Appointed acting President of Ecuador after the military junta resigned

Appointed President of Turkey, acting

Mariner 10 makes the first spacecraft flyby of Mercury, validating the trajectory that permits later repeat encounters.

Mariner 10 magnetometer observations reveal that Mercury possesses an intrinsic magnetic field strong enough to form a magnetosphere.

Manescu becomes prime minister after the presidency is created.

Produces Blow by Blow, a major instrumental rock album for guitarist Jeff Beck.

Appointed de facto President of Argentina after the 1976 coup

Healey presents a Budget after the IMF crisis as sterling pressure eases.

CIA-related assassination records become part of later investigations.

Uses the March Budget as the government seeks economic recovery after the IMF crisis.

Economic-policy record linked to the IMF crisis: Uses the March Budget as the government seeks economic recovery after the IMF crisis.

Government response under Denis Winston Healey: Uses the March Budget as the government seeks economic recovery after the IMF crisis.

IMF context: Uses the March Budget as the government seeks economic recovery after the IMF crisis.

Mohrenschildt received a business card from Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, telling him that he would like to see him. The HSCA considered him a "crucial witness".

That afternoon, Mohrenschildt was found dead from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head in a house where he was staying in Manalapan Florida. The coroner's verdict was suicide

Shortly after Chief Counsel Richard Sprague declined to sign CIA secrecy oaths and began asking pointed questions about Oswald's visit to Mexico City, he began to be denounced in the press and by his own committee chairman, Henry Gonzalez.

The Church Committee's unfinished business fell to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

The committee was almost terminated before it got started, rescued only by the resignations of Gonzalez and Sprague, and the apparent suicide of key witness George de Mohrenschildt

Mohrenschildt received a business card from Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, telling him that he would like to see him. The HSCA considered him a "crucial witness".

That afternoon, Mohrenschildt was found dead from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head in a house where he was staying in Manalapan Florida. The coroner's verdict was suicide

Dies before the committee can question him in person.

Healey presents a Budget as sterling stabilises and the government seeks economic recovery after the IMF crisis.

Presents the March Budget as sterling stabilises after the IMF crisis.

Economic-policy record linked to the IMF crisis: Presents the March Budget as sterling stabilises after the IMF crisis.

Government response under Denis Winston Healey: Presents the March Budget as sterling stabilises after the IMF crisis.

IMF context: Presents the March Budget as sterling stabilises after the IMF crisis.

Mohrenschildt gave an interview to author Edward Jay Epstein, during which he claimed that in 1962, Dallas CIA operative J. Walton Moore and one of Moore-s associates had handed him the address of Lee Harvey Oswald in nearby Fort Worth and then suggested that Mohrenschildt might like to meet him

Presents a Budget after the IMF crisis as sterling pressure eases.

Economic-policy record linked to the IMF crisis: Presents a Budget after the IMF crisis as sterling pressure eases.

Government response under Denis Winston Healey: Presents a Budget after the IMF crisis as sterling pressure eases.

IMF context: Presents a Budget after the IMF crisis as sterling pressure eases.

Sein Win leaves the prime ministership

Maung Maung Kha becomes Prime Minister of socialist Burma

Presents the Budget as sterling stabilises following the IMF crisis.

Economic-policy record linked to the IMF crisis: Presents the Budget as sterling stabilises following the IMF crisis.

Government response under Denis Winston Healey: Presents the Budget as sterling stabilises following the IMF crisis.

IMF context: Presents the Budget as sterling stabilises following the IMF crisis.

Co-discovers Q0957+561, the first confirmed gravitationally lensed quasar.

The committee submitted its final report, preserving its findings on Oswald, possible conspiracy, Cuba-related allegations, and the performance of federal agencies.

Appointed de facto President of Argentina after Jorge Rafael Videla

The Joint Intelligence Committee reports an invasion seems imminent, Thatcher orders 3 nuclear submarines south to the Islands

Represents Greece as leaders consider economic recovery and Community budget questions.

Orders nuclear submarines south as invasion fears grow.

Represents Greece as leaders prepare for treaty reform and completion of the internal market.

Forced to resign by the Socialist Party

Wins Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards for Unforgiven.

Restores elected civilian presidency after NPRC military rule

Kabbah is sworn in as civilian president after military rule

Sworn in as President after winning the 1996 election

Hosts the special European Council that opens the intergovernmental conference to revise Maastricht.

Represents Greece as the intergovernmental conference opens negotiations that later produce the Amsterdam Treaty.

Chirac participated in launching negotiations that produced the Amsterdam Treaty.

Participates as the intergovernmental conference opens negotiations that later produce the Treaty of Amsterdam.

Represents Greek diplomacy at the opening of treaty-reform negotiations.

Galileo makes another targeted pass of Europa during the extended mission.

Assumes the presidency after the resignation of Raul Cubas.

Is confined in his Ramallah compound during Israel's West Bank operation.

Orders a large West Bank operation after suicide bombings inside Israel.

Nastase deposits Romania's instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty.

Backs renewed Arab League endorsement of the Arab Peace Initiative at the Riyadh summit.

Mugabe contests presidential and parliamentary elections against a strengthened opposition.

ZANU-PF wins fewer elected Assembly seats than the combined MDC factions.

Opens an international conference coordinating political and diplomatic support for Libya's transition.

The United Nations selects Muhammad Iqbal Asi of Pakistan to command the UN peacekeeping force in Cote d'Ivoire.

The United Kingdom gives formal notice of withdrawal from the European Union.

The United Kingdom gives formal notice of withdrawal from the European Union.

The original Brexit date passes without the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.

The Commons rejects the Withdrawal Agreement for a third time.

The Commons rejects the Withdrawal Agreement for a third time.

Orders lockdowns in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja.

Addresses the nation as Sweden follows a less restrictive pandemic strategy.

Calls on Denmark to tighten sanctions and support the restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity.

Leads the Ukrainian delegation in peace talks with Russian negotiators in Istanbul

Leads the Russian delegation in peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul

Birth of Ferdinando Fairfax, later second Lord Fairfax of Cameron

Birth of David Paul Greenfield, later keyboard player with The Stranglers.

Dies with Scott and Bowers in the final camp.

Dies with Scott and Wilson during the return journey.

Dies with Scott and Wilson in their final camp during the return from the South Pole

Eileen Orwell dies during an operation.

Death of George de Mohrenschildt, suicide

Mohrenschildt received a business card from Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, telling him that he would like to see him. The HSCA considered him a "crucial witness".

That afternoon, Mohrenschildt was found dead from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head in a house where he was staying in Manalapan Florida. The coroner's verdict was suicide

Fights on the side of the Yorkists who defeat the Lancasrians

Victory improves Richards chances of succession. Richard Duke of Yorks brother Edward wins the Battle of Towton

Without their King on the battlefield, the Lancastrians relied on Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, to command their army. He was fairly experienced in matters of war and credited with the Lancastrians victory at Wakefield and St Albans

Fights for the defeated Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton Moor

Defeat at Towton forces Margaret, Edward & Henry into exile in Scotland then France

Fights for the defeated Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton Moor

He was quick to adapt to new situations; among his previous achievements were the administration of Calais, leading several piracy expeditions, and the command of the vanguard at the Battle of Northampton

The Yorkist leader Lord Fauconberg orders his archers to take advantage of the strong wind to outrange their enemies. The one-sided missile exchange, with Lancastrian arrows falling short of the Yorkist ranks, provoked the Lancastrians into abandoning their defensive positions.

Warwick placed great value on his uncle, William Nevillle, a veteran of the Anglo-French wars, esteemed by his peers in military affairs.

Fights for the defeated Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton Moor

About 28,000 are killed, the most bloody Battle on English soil

Fights for the defeated Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton Moor

Fights on the side of the Yorkists who defeat the Lancasrians

Mughal forces defeat Baz Bahadur and take Malwa.

Adham Khan commands Mughal forces against Baz Bahadur.

The 101st Airborne Division on March 29, supported by a battalion from the 1st Armored Division attacked Iraqi forces in the southern part of the city, near the Imam Ali Mosque and captured Najafs airfield