1767 – King Charles III of Spain gives orders to expel the Jesuits from the Spanish Empire
1866 – US President Andrew Johnson ends civil war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
1912 – Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang Party in China
1930 – Ras Tafari Makonnen is proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1939 – 6th US Masters Tournament: Ralph Guldahl wins his only Masters title with a tournament record 279 (−9), 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Sam Snead
1983 – New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy scores in a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins to become the first player in NHL history to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons
2012 – 74th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky defeats Kansas, 67-59; Wildcats guard Doron Lamb, 22 points
2019 – 70 villages evacuated in Khuzesta province, Iran, after at least 45 killed in flooding after unprecedented rainfall
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 1st April 2026
792 – Maya city of Piedras Negras celebrates military triumph over nearby settlement of Pomona (as depicted in Stela 12 Piedras Negras)
1778 – New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the “$” symbol
1866 – US Congress rejects presidential veto giving all equal rights in US
1867 – Singapore, Penang and Malacca become British crown colonies
1888 – Students from Rotterdam, Netherlands establish a cricket club called Rotterdamsche Cricket and Football Club Sparta which evolves into Sparta Rotterdam
1910 – Romanian geographer Dumitru Dan completes a 62,137-mile (100,000-kilometer) walk
2000 – American boxer Chris Byrd wins WBO Heavyweight title after Ukrainian champion Vitali Klitschko retires with a shoulder injury at the end of the 9th round in Berlin, Germany
2012 – 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Jack and Jill wins
Historical Events for 31st March 2026
1084 – Anti-pope Clement crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
1862 – Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1909 – National Baseball Commission rules players who jump contracts to be suspended for 5 years; players joining outlaw organizations suspended for 3 years
1951 – US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea
1966 – 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
1978 – Wings release “London Town” album
1982 – Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1985 – El Salvador’s President José Napoleón Duarte’ Christian Democratic Party wins election
Historical Events for 30th March 2026
1814 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration, which later inspires Italian unification
1864 – Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
1900 – 62nd Grand National: Algy Anthony wins aboard Ambush II; owner is Prince Of Wales (King Edward VII)
1942 – SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki concentration camp
1983 – New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) begins trading in crude oil future
1992 – CBS TV premieres overnight news program “Up To The Minute”
2012 – American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars
2022 – State memorial service held for Australian cricketing great Shane Warne at Melbourne Cricket Ground, attended by 50,000
Historical Events for 29th March 2026
1798 – Republic of Switzerland forms
1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d’état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland’s four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1867 – British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is given Royal Assent
1960 – Darius Milhaud’s 9th Symphony, premieres by the Fort Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra and with conductor Mario di Bonaventura
1986 – Records by The Beatles officially go on sale in Russia more than two decades after their release in the West
1993 – Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
1998 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Pat Hurst wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Helen Dobson after sinking a 5-foot birdie putt at the final green
2007 – Rihanna releases her hit single “Umbrella” featuring Jay-Z, goes to No. 1 on US Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks
Historical Events for 28th March 2026
1902 – 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record)
1922 – Stanley Cup Final, Mutual Street Arena, Toronto, ON: Toronto St Patricks (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 5-1 for a 3-2 series win
1930 – 1st performance of Walter Piston’s Suite for orchestra (Boston)
1942 – St. Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot): obsolete British destroyer HMS Campbeltown, rigged with explosives and flying German flags, rams gates of German occupied St Nazaire port in France, and self detonates; kills 360 Germans, and disables the dry dock for duration of the war
1950 – 12th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley, 71-68; City College of NY first to win NCAA and National Invitational Basketball in same year
1953 – 7th Tony Awards: “The Crucible” (Outstanding Play) and “Wonderful Town” (Outstanding Musical) win
1954 – WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, PR (TM) begins broadcasting
1969 – Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal
Historical Events for 27th March 2026
1003 – Peace deal is signed between Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and the pagan Wends (Slavs)
1709 – Dike at Hardinxveld breaks, flooding Alblasserwaard in the Netherlands
1848 – John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party
1961 – Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1976 – Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens
1978 – The Rutles mockumentary “All You Need is Cash” is shown on British TV
2002 – Passover Massacre: Suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel
Historical Events for 26th March 2026
1534 – Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea
1886 – 48th Grand National: Tommy Skelton wins aboard 25/1 chance Old Joe
1945 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1972 – LA Lakers break the NBA wins record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13), record stands for 24 years
1996 – The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia
1996 – Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld v Vic)
2018 – US Federal Trade Commission confirms it will investigate Facebook over privacy concerns
2023 – WPL Cricket Final, Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai: Mumbai Indians win inaugural tournament beating Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets with 3 balls to spare; Player of the match: Nat Sciver-Brunt (Mumbai Indians) 60no
Historical Events for 25th March 2026
1821 – The Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire is officially declared, after hostilities begin two months earlier
1951 – 5th Tony Awards: “Guys and Dolls” (musical) and “The Rose Tattoo” (play) win
1967 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1974 – 9th Academy of Country Music Awards: Charlie Rich and Loretta Lynn win
1995 – Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1996 – US issues a redesigned $100 bill
1999 – 13th Soul Train Music Awards: Luther Vandross, R. Kelly and Lauryn Hill win
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood
Historical Events for 24th March 2026
1894 – 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington
1956 – 110th Grand National: race best remembered for Devon Loch’s inexplicable fall on final straight, just 40 yards from a certain victory; Dave Dick wins aboard E.S.B.
1959 – Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1962 – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys
1980 – 42nd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA, 59-54; Cardinals’ first title in first title game
1997 – 69th Academy Awards: “The English Patient”, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win
2019 – US Attorney William Barr summarizes report submitted by Special Council Robert Mueller (The Mueller Report) in a letter to Congress stating “investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities” and “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense”
2023 – Africa’s first centralised biobank – Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa, collecting more than a million biodiversity samples opens in Pretoria, South Africa