The March 16th is the 75e Jour of the Année (76e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

sixth century BC

5th century

13th century

  • 1244 : Hugues d' Arcis , Pierre Amiel (archbishop of Narbonne) and Durand (bishop of Albi) burns more than 200 Cathares which have just gone after the catch of the Château of Montségur, France.

16th century

  • 1517 : Rome: The council of Lateran declares null and not avenues the resolutions taken at the time of the council joined together with Pisa of 1511 with 1512 at the instigation of king de France and the Emperor.

  • 1534 : The England breaks all its relations with the Catholic church.

  • 1578 : Letters patent of the king de France Henri III authorizing the construction of the New Bridge on the the Seine with Paris.

17th century

  • 1631 : Italy: The peace of Cherasco puts an end to the war of succession of Mantoue. Charles of Nevers-Gonzague, favorite of the France, is recognized duke of Mantoue by the emperor Ferdinand II.

  • 1662 : Inauguration of the first Public transport between the Door St Martin and the Door of Luxembourg . It is about fit with body public. Blaise Pascal is the instigator.

  • 1690 : Louis XIV sends an army in Ireland to fight at the sides of the king Jacques II.

18th century

  • 1731 : Austria: At the time of the second treated of Vienna , Charles VI obtains England the recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction.

  • 1737 : Paris: Creation with the theater of the Italians of the comedy of Marivaux the False Confidences .

19th century

  • 1844 : The Greece adopts a Constitution creating a bicameral Parlement.

  • 1848 : Berlin: With the news of rising Viennese and fall of Metternich, this day, enthusiasm seizes the Berliners. Rosettes with the German colors (black, red and gold) appear. The streets cover soon barricades. The king Frederic-Guillaume IV is constrained to accept the need for a restoration and to announce the immediate meeting of a federal Parliament, the creation of an army and a national fleet, and the extension of the Zollverein. He grants some concessions to the liberals: abolition of the censure and nearest convocation of the Landtag. But it is already too late to stop the revolution.

  • 1851 : A Concordat makes Catholicisme the religion of State in Spain and grants to the Église the control of teaching and the press.

  • 1871 : An insurrection bursts in Kabylie; repression by the French Army makes 20.000 victims.

20th century

  • 1906 : The Japan nationalizes its railroads.

  • 1910 : To Daytona Beach, the United States, Barney Oldfield carries the speed records on ground to 131 miles/hour.

  • 1926 : with Auburn, the Massachusetts, Robert Goddard lance his first rocket with liquid fuel. It rose with 12,5 meters and its flight lasted 2,5 seconds.

  • 1937 : Paris: Slaughter with Clichy: the police force draws on demonstrations antifascists. Five died and three hundred wounded.

  • 1962 : First of 1521 launchings of satellites Cosmos .

  • 1965 : 1.500 students express in front of the Consulate of the the United States of Montreal, Canada, to protest against the discrimination made with regard to the Americans of black race who cannot use their right to vote in the south of the the United States.

  • 1978 :

    • the tanker Amoco Cadiz is failed broad of Portsall in the Finistere, releasing 228.000 tons of crude and causing the black spring tide of Brittany.
    • Aldo Moro, former president of the Council and president of the Party Christian-Democrat in Italy, is removed with Rome following a violent shooting which leaves 5 dead. The red Brigades will assert the attack, and Aldo Moro will be found without life the May 9th according to.

  • 1986 : Victoire of the right-hand side in France with the legislative elections, which brings to the first " Cohabitation ".

  • 1988 :

    • the Iraq bombards Kurdish villages with chemical weapons which, according to the Iran, make five thousand dead in particular with Halabja.
    • the team of tennis shoe of C.S.P. Limoges beats the Joventut de Badalone and gains the Cut of Europe of the winners of Cuts.

  • 1990 :
    • the French navigator Titouan Lamazou gains the first edition of the Round the world tour as a recluse, the Vendée Globe Challenge, and without stopover in 109 days, 8 hours, 45 minutes.
    • with Valence (Spain), alternative of Enrique Sandpapers, Spanish Matador.

  • 1991 : The English team of Rugby makes a success of the large slam in the Five Nations tournament.

  • 1994 :

    • Tonya Harding is condemned by a court of Portland to 100.000 dollars of fine and 3 years of setting to the test, after considered to be guilty of obstacle to justice. The judgment also means that the American skater loses her license and her right to represent the United States in any competition. Harding had pled guilty in the business of the aggression of its rival Nancy Kerrigan, the January 6th with Detroit, by its ex-husband and one of his old bodyguards.
    • the gas ship Traquair is surprised in the western rail assembling from Ushant with in its wake a tablecloth of hydrocarbons extending on 8 miles and 10 to 15 meters broad. A statement is established for this wild degasification. The English commander is condemned to 30.000 F of fine by the TGI of Brest the January 27th 1995, this sorrow will be carried to 250.000 F by the Court of Appeal of Rennes the March 18th 1996. To consult the CEDAR

  • 1995 : The Russian capsule Soyuz TM-21 with for the first time on its board an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts moors with the orbit station Mir.

  • 1998 : A document made public by the Commission of the relations with the Judaism of the the Vatican " deeply regrets the errors and the failures " catholics during the Holocaust, but defends the action of the pope of the time, Pie XII; large the Rabbin of Israel requires that the the Vatican present excuses on the silence observed by the Catholic church on the Jewish Génocide.

  • 2000 :

    • Lionel Jospin raises the veil on the use of the " kitty " 2000, while announcing for forty billion francs of falls taxes (approximately six billion euros) and ten billion more (one billion and half of euros) for the public expenditure.
    • Renault prepares its return in Formule 1 by repurchasing the Italian stable Benetton.
    • One condemned to death cleared is discharged in Florida. Joseph Green had been recognized guilty of murder and had been condemned to died in 1993, on the basis of testimony which appeared later stripped of reliability. It spent almost seven years in prison including three years and half in the Couloir of dead the. Joseph Green is the 19th slackened prisoner of the corridor of died of Florida since 1973, and the 87e condemned to death cleared with the the United States since 1973.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • the Senegal sign a Cease-fire with the separatists of Casamance, in thirteen years an old conflict.
    • the Saoudi special forces give the attack against the Tupolev 154 of the company Vnukovo (Istambul - Moscow) diverted on the airport of Médine, Saudi Arabia. 3 people (one of the terrorists, an airline hostess and a Turkish passenger) among the 162 passengers and 12 team members are killed during the attack. The terrorists were directed by a former minister tchetchene of the Interior, Arsaf Aslambik .
    • has PAPEETE, of torture of child is condemned to 19 years of prison to have inflicted maltreatment with children of which it had the load as a " mère" of family of reception.
    • Ben Chitrit Machloof is stopped with the return of Paris, with New York with more than 61.000 seals of Extasy in one of its bags (estimate made by the customs: 1,2 million dollars or 1,3 million euros or 8,5 million FF).
    • Meike Mr. , allemande has a problem: she is treated since long months for a brain tumor. Amenorrhoea , its doctor, alerted by a high rate of Prolactine rejected the idea of a “bacterial infection” or “of a pregnancy” to prescribe to him a hormonal treatment and examinations radiographic in the search of a Tumeur. Today it waits in the waiting room of its doctor when the first contractions occur. Six hours later, it is mom of a baby of 3.100 grams and 49 centimetres.

  • 2002 :

    • European Council with Barcelona, where the France obtains guarantees on the public service in the process of liberalization of gas and electricity; a demonstration at the conclusion of the Council gathers three hundred and thousand demonstrators anti-universalization.
    • France, close to Besancon: Two teenagers (13 and 14 years) attract one their comrades in an unused house. They make it drink, strike it, break a bottle to him on the head, lacerate the face to him, open to him vein them and leave to seek gasoline to burn it sharp. Fortunately, the victim succeeds in fleeing. They are put in examination for " voluntary attempt at manslaughter accompanied by acts of torture and barbarie". They will be condemned to 6 and 7 years of prison firm.
    • Opening to the general public of the park Walt Disney Studios, 2nd park with topics of the complex Disneyland Brings out Paris.
    • the US president George W. Bush, British the Prime Minister Tony Blair and chair it Spanish government Jose Maria Aznar meet in the Portuguese archipelago of the the Azores in order to evoke the Iraqi crisis.
    • François Bozize, former chief of Central African staff dismissed in October 2001 for an attempt at Putsch, autoproclame " Head of the State " , the shortly after a takeover by force flash to Bangui, and constrained the president Angel-Felix Patassé to be fled with the Cameroun.
    • Xiao Yang (肖扬), which was Minister for the Justice of 1993 with 1998, is re-elected president of the supreme popular Cour of China, at the time of the 6th plenary session of the first session of the 10th National People's Assembly.
    • Sandrine Bailly and Martina Glagow divides the gold medal of the continuation 10 km of the championships of the world of Biathlon, with Khanty-Mansiysk, fault of being decided between by the Photo finish.
    • Swing-low of combat between Dusseldorf and Cologne (Germany) or the firemen (frogmen) are on mission of interception on the person of a stray Phoque.

  • 2005 :

    • a civil servant of the Taxes recognizes being at the origin of the disappearance of tax files of six personalities, of which those of Herve Gaymard and Claude Chirac.
    • Israel gives the control of the town of Jericho (the West Bank) to the Palestinian authorities; four other towns of the West Bank will be transferred to the Palestinians according to an agreement concluded the last February 8th.
    • New historical date for the Iraq: the first freely elected Iraqi National Assembly opens her inaugural session.

  • 2008 :

    • Second turn of the municipal elections in France
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