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“It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them,” observed Leonardo da Vinci. “They went out and happened to things.” Great men make history. Below are some of the important birthdays, deaths, and events that occurred this past week in history.
March 12
538 – Reported date on which Vittigis or Wittigis and his Ostrogoths end the Siege of Rome, leaving Byzantine general Belisarius victorious.
604 – Pope St. Gregory the Great dies.
March 13
624 – Muhammed and his Muslim forces defeat the Meccans at the Battle of Badr.
1884 – Siege of Khartoum (Sudan) begins. It ended with the slaughter of the British defenders by Al-Mahdi and his forces.
March 14
1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, revolutionizing the cotton industry.
1879 – Albert Einstein is born in Germany. A mathematician, physicist, and Nobel Prize winner, he was one of the most impactful scientists in history.
1883 – Karl Marx dies. His anti-religious, unrealistic, secular, pernicious philosophy of Communism has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people.
March 15
44 BC – Would-be dictator Julius Caesar is stabbed by a crowd of Roman senators led by Caesar’s erstwhile friend Brutus. Caesar had been warned about the Ides of March (the 15th) but ignored the warning.
1783 – Washington puts an end to the Newburgh Conspiracy. After Washington’s address, the repentant conspirators decided to give their leader “the unanimous thanks of the officers” and the message that “the officers reciprocate his affectionate expressions, with the greatest sincerity of which the human heart is capable.”
March 16
1527 – Battle of Khanua or Khanwa between the Mughal Empire’s founder (who won) and a coalition of Rajput rulers.
1751 – Birthday of Founding Father James Madison, the Father of the Constitution and fourth U.S. President, in office during the War of 1812.
March 17
180 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, and persecutor of Christians, dies.
5th century – St. Patrick, the British bishop who converted Ireland to Christianity, dies. His feast day is a major holiday in Ireland and America.
March 18
1123 – The First Lateran Council opens.
1940 – “[Chicago Tribune] Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany’s war against France and Britain.”
March 19
1279 – The naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty.
1848 – Wyatt Earp, iconic figure of the Wild West and hero of many stories then and since, is born.
2003 – The War in Iraq begins, initiated by U.S. and coalition (mostly UK) forces.
March 20
1815 – Escaped Napoleon’s “Hundred Days” of reigning starts.
1854 – The Republican Party is formed in Wisconsin with the express goal of preventing the spread of slavery.
1933 – “[WIRED] The first Nazi concentration camp is established on the outskirts of Dachau.”
March 21
1617 – Pocahontas is buried in Gravesend. A daughter of a Native American Indian chief, as a child, she intervened to save English explorer John Smith and bring peace between the English colonists and the natives. She later converted to Christianity, married John Rolfe, had a son, and went to England, where she died in her early 20s. As the young mother died, she said, “‘Tis enough that the child liveth.”
1975 – Members of a military coup abolish the 3000-year-old Ethiopian monarchy.
Read about more key events and individuals on Substack!
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