The March 21st is the 80e Jour of the Année (81e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

7th century

  • 623 : Arabia: Mecquois must raise the seat of Yathrib (Médine). The first Moslem State was born.

  • 630 : Jerusalem: The Roman Emperor of the East Héraclius brings back the Vraie Cross, taken again with the Perses. It is the apotheosis of a reign which began in the storm.

8th century

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

  • 1322 : Guillaume I {{er}} of Avesnes, count de Hainaut, grants to the inhabitants Genly the privilege to be governed by a law in conformity with that of Mons (Hainaut).

16th century

18th century

  • 1788 : A fire destroys 856 buildings with the New-Orleans, the United States.

  • 1789 : Gilbert de Riberolles is elected, by the Sénéchaussée of Riom, by 265 votes out of 393 voters, appointed of the Tiers state of the province of Auvergne to the General states.

  • 1791 : England/Prussia: The two powers are intended in order to be opposed together to the expansionist aimings Russia.

  • 1793 : Paris: Creation of the revolutionary inspection committees in the communes and the sections.

  • 1800 : The Russia and the Ottoman Empire, are meant, in the treated of Constantinople to form the “federative République of the Seven-Islands”, name given to the entity gathering seven islands of the Ionian Mer (in the past Venetian), located between the Greece and the Italy, that the France had been allotted to the Traité of Campo-Formio in 1797.

19th century

  • 1804 :
    • Execution of the duke of Enghien in the ditches of the castle of Vincennes.
    • (30 ventôse year XII): Napoleon Bonaparte promulgates the Civil code. This one is one of the codes founders of the contemporary era in Europe. It was used of 1804 to 1884 without modifications or almost. It is under the IIIe République that half of the articles will be modified. The texts which most radically evolved/moved since its creation are those which concern the family. The radiation of the Civil code of Bonaparte was obvious until our days; not only in Europe, but also in America, Africa and Asia.

  • 1814 : Lyon: The general Augereau evacuates the city and is folded up on Valence.

  • 1831 : Austrian forces penetrate in Italy in order to mâter a rising.

  • 1841 : France: The Room has just adopted a law regulating the exploitation of the children in the industry and which prohibits the child work in eight year old lower part, limits it to eight hours for those from eight to twelve years, at twelve hours before sixteen years. But, badly applied, it will not remove “ the torture which one inflicts with children from six to eight years, obliged to traverse, as of five hours of the morning, the long distance which separates them from the workshops ”.

  • 1851 : Vietnam: The emperor You Duke makes put at dead Christian priests.

  • 1861 : Tremor devastator kills 18.000 people in Argentine.

  • 1874 : Clove-Girofla , Operetta in three acts of Charles Lecocq, is represented for the first time at the Imagination-Parisian of Brussels,

20th century

  • 1908 :

    • France: Leon Delagrange and Henri Farman makes their first flight with passenger on a biplane.
    • France: the French Action becomes a daily newspaper.

  • 1910 : Washington: The Sénat allots to former President Theodore Roosevelt an annual rent of ten thousand dollars.

  • 1918 :

    • With the Treated of Brest-Litovsk signed with the Russia, the Germany has from now on a numerical superiority on the forces of the Entente. This day , Ludendorff takes again the offensive. It is the second Bataille of the Sum.
    • Rupture of the English face, Saint-Quentin is taken.

  • 1919 : In Hungary, after the fusion of the Communist Parties and social democrat, Béla Kun seizes the power and proclaims the République of the Councils on the model of the Soviet S Russian. This communist interlude will duerera until.

  • 1925 : the Child and the Magic spells , imagination lyric in two parts of Maurice Ravel, is represented for the first time at the Opera of Monte Carlo.

  • 1935 : The Perse will bear from now on the name of Iran.

  • 1945 : English aviation bombards Copenhagen, aiming at the buildings of the Gestapo; civilians of the vicinity are killed, including 86 schoolboys.

  • 1948 : Creation as of the autonomous Governed of Parisian transport (the RATP).

  • 1960 : The South-African police force opens fire during a demonstration against the passes with Sharpeville: 69 died and more than 150 wounded; the State of emergency is proclaimed.

  • 1975 : One year after having reversed the emperor Hailé Sélassié, in Ethiopia, of the soldiers abolish the imperial statute of the Négus and three thousand years an old monarchy, and proclaim the Republic.

  • 1977 : Indira Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister, resigns after being beaten with the legislative elections.

  • 1979 : The Israeli Gouvernement approves officially the peace treaty with the Egypt, which will be signed officially with Washington.

  • 1981 : The Polish trade union Solidarność and government agree to engage of the emergency talks in front of the crisis situation created by police repression against the trade unionists.

  • 1983 : Yamoussoukro, the native village of the president Houphouët-Boigny, becomes the capital of the country. It is with its fourth mandate and its party is only authorized.

  • 1984 : Katarina Witt adds the world championship of figure skating to its Olympic gold medal. Young the 18 year old skater of the German Democratic republic dominated in the compulsory figures and the programs short and length in free style.

  • 1988 : Super-tankers are taken in an attack of Iraqi aviation against objectives Iran iens: about fifty deaths.

  • 1989 : In Belgium, the age of the majority passes from 21 to 18 years.

  • 1991 : The British government announces the suppression in April 1993 of the " poll tax " , the unpopular local tax founded by Mrs. Thatcher.

  • 1993 : Historical defeat of the PS to the first turn of the legislative ones. With only 17% of the voices, the Socialist party records a historical retreat with the first turn of the legislative elections. One week later, the second turn confirms this sanction of the voters with respect to the Socialist government. The UDF and the RPR are majority with the Assemblée with four hundred soixante-douze seats. The March 29th, the first socialist minister Pierre Bérégovoy resigns. Edouard Balladur is named Prime Minister for one second cohabitation left-right-hand side. The May 5th, Pierre Bérégovoy, despaired to be mingled with a scandal politico-financial and given up by his/her friends, commits suicide.

  • 1994 :

    • the given 66e of the Oscars marks the triumph of Steven Spielberg, whose film the list of Schindler gains 7 statuettes, including those for best film and the best realizer, while Jurassic Park collects of them 3. Holly Hunter and the young person Anna Paquin, 11 years old, are crowned for their roles in the Piano lesson . The film Philadelphia brings back a Oscar to Tom Hanks like better actor and to Bruce Springsteen for the best song: Streets off Philadelphia . Tommy Lee Jones is the best supporting actor for his service in The Fugitive , and the Oscar for the screen of the film the list of Schindler , belongs to John Williams.
    • Coming into effect symbolic system of convention tallies of the the United Nations on the Climate changes opens, whose objective is to stabilize the atmospheric concentrations of gas for purpose of the greenhouse on a level which prevents any dangerous human disturbance of the climatic system. Only 50 countries signed it.

  • 1999 :

    • Bertrand Picard and Brian Jones lands in Egypt. The day before with 10:54, they buckled the first round the world tour in balloon without stopover in 19 days 1 hour 49 minutes.
    • the reverend Keith Sinclair of the parish of Birmingham, decides to make sound the bells of its church of 10:00 to 13:00 for “ emmerder ” the footballers. Indeed, to arrange the televised retransmission, the match was advanced per hour of the mass, which high risk to deprive of the parishioners of at least eight churches of the Sunday office if those place football before the mass.

  • 2000 :

    • Israel carries out the withdrawal of 6,1% of the the West Bank, in accordance with the revised agreement of Wye Plantation.
    • Contrairement has what was envisaged, Lionel Jospin refuses to present its orientations on the future of the retirements.
    • Jean-Paul II becomes the first Pope in official visit in Israel.
    • After a derailment of a score of coaches of a goods train due to a broken rail, a toxic cloud of smoke escapes from the cistern broken of the one of them (it transported nitric Acid and hydrofluoric Acid ), with Saint-Galmier (the Loire), close to Saint-Etienne. 1.800 people are evacuated but it is observed that the death of several bovines which grazed in the vicinity and which succumbed to a nitrate surdose.

21e century

  • 2002 :

    • the 22e Salon of the book of Paris, whose Italy is the guest of honor, opens in the absence of Italian the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, due to polemic with the minister Frenchwoman of the Culture Catherine Tasca.
    • Reduction (Morocco): Marriage in the intimacy of Mohammed VI, thirty-eight years, with a twenty-four year old data processing specialist Salma Bennani (now Princess Lalla Salma).
    • Three minors (14, 15 and 16 years) are placed as a police custody after a track race with the police force with Metz. These three hooligans are already known, in spite of their age, of the police force for multiple businesses. They were in freedom in spite of these misdeeds.
    • Aaron Peirsol carries the world records of swimming on 200 m back, large basin, to 1 mn 55 S 15.

  • 2003 :

    • the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr , which constitutes the only maritime window of the Iraq, is invested and taken by the Marines American.
    • Two marine American is killed in Iraq, becoming officially the first US deaths with the combat.

  • 2004 : In France, first turn of the regional elections and first turn of the cantonal elections, clear advance of the left confirmed to the second turn.

  • 2005 :

    • old the Mayor of Paris and current mayor of Ve district, Jean Tiberi, is put in examination in the investigation into the false voters of this Parisian district.
    • teenager a 17 year old kills seven people in her college, located in the Indian reserve of the Minnesota, like his/her grandparents, before committing suicide.

  • 2007 : With the Quebec, the journalist Julie Miville-Dechêne is named at the station of Ombudsman of the Société Radio-Canada /CBC for a five years mandate. It is the first woman to occupy this function within the company of state.

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Births

Death

1990: Lev Yachine, Soviet guard of football -->

Astronomy

It is one of the days of the equinox of spring.

With the 21e century, only the years 2003 and 2007 are in this case. It will be necessary to await the year 2102 for this return. At the 22e century, that will arrive 11 times. They had arrived 58 times at the 20th century.

Celebrations

  • Tunisia: Youth
  • Japan celebrates: Shunbun No hi (Day of the vernal equinox)
  • Mexico: Birthday of the birth of Benito Juárez
  • Iranian World: Norouz, the first New Year's Day of the Persan calendar, which also corresponds to the New Year's Day of the Foi Baha' IE and the Kurdish , inter alia.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Benoit de Nursie († 543), patriarch of the monks of Occident (Western date).
  • Sérapion d' Arsinoé (IVe century), abbot in Egypt.
  • Sérapion Sindonite († towards 387), monk in Egypt.

Holy catholic of the day

See too

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