Let’s Give A Look To Things Happened Today In Ancient Times

Education
Mar 31 2017 11:48 AM
Raksha Bhandari

Here we have pinned together importance of 31st March in historic times

1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present and joins the Crusade.
1492 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Aragon issued the Alhambra Decree which expels Jews from their Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon
1504 France & Spain sign ceasefire
1667 France & England sign anti-Dutch military accord
1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 Quebec & Montreal incorporated
1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
1849 Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF
1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1854 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to the US
1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans (US Civil War)
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1863 Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA
1865 Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
1865 Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defence of Peterburg
1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile.
1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1870 1st black to vote in the US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)