Editing March 14 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1074]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mogyoród]]: Dukes [[Géza I of Hungary|Géza]] and [[Ladislaus I of Hungary|Ladislaus]] defeat their cousin [[Solomon, King of Hungary]], forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.<ref>{{cite book|last=Engel|first=Pál|authorlink=Pál Engel|year=2001|title=The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526|publisher=I.B. Tauris Publishers|isbn=1-86064-061-3|pages=31–32}}</ref> 
*[[1590]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ivry]]: [[Henry IV of France|Henry of Navarre]] and the [[Huguenot]]s defeat the forces of the [[Catholic League (French)|Catholic League]] under [[Charles, Duke of Mayenne]], during the [[French Wars of Religion]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Oman|title=A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KQOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA501|year=1937|publisher=E.P. Dutton|pages=501|isbn=978-0-598-49757-4}}</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Bavaria]], [[Cologne]], [[France]] and [[Sweden]] sign the [[Truce of Ulm (1647)|Truce of Ulm]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XN51y209fR8C|year=1991|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-192-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XN51y209fR8C/page/n91 83]}}</ref>
*[[1663]] &ndash; According to his own account, [[Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio'', detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of [[electrostatic repulsion]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto von Guericke|title=The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a8voCAAAQBAJ&pg=PR20|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-011-2010-4|pages=20}}</ref>
*[[1674]] &ndash; The [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]]: The [[Battle of Ronas Voe]] results in the [[Dutch East India Company]] ship ''Wapen van Rotterdam'' being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010899007|title=Londenden 3 April|date=1674-04-03|work=Amsterdamsche Courant|access-date=2019-03-23|publisher=Mattheus Cousart |issue=15 |department=Engelandt|location=London|publication-place=Amsterdam|publication-date=1674-04-10|page=1|language=nl|trans-title=London 3 April |via=Delpher|ref={{harvid|Amsterdamsche Courant 10 April|1674}}}}</ref>
*[[1757]] &ndash; Admiral Sir [[John Byng]] is [[executed by firing squad]] aboard {{HMS|Monarch|1747|6}} for breach of the [[Articles of War]].<ref name="Byng" />
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] forces [[Battle of Fort Charlotte|capture Fort Charlotte]] in [[Mobile, Alabama]], the last British frontier post capable of threatening [[New Orleans]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Peter Joseph |title=Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the ... |date=1897 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin andcompany |page=255 |url=https://archive.org/details/colonialmobilea03hamigoog/page/n304/mode/2up |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Eli Whitney]] is granted a [[patent]] for the [[cotton gin]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard B. Rockman|title=Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6B88P-32IIQC&pg=PA475|date=26 July 2004|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-69739-8|pages=475}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; Rossini's ''[[Petite messe solennelle]]'' is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a [[Pump organ|harmonium]] player in a mansion in Paris.<ref>{{cite book | last = Hurwitz | first = David | author-link = David Hurwitz (music critic) | url = http://www.classicstoday.com/features/RossiniMesse.pdf | title = Petite Messe solennelle (Works of Gioachino Rossini, Vol. 3) | date = 2010 | publisher = classicstoday.com }}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; ''[[The Mikado]]'', a light opera by [[W. S. Gilbert]] and [[Arthur Sullivan]], receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Frederick Wilse Bateson|title=The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uak8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA611|year=1940|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=611}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; The [[Gold Standard Act]] is ratified, placing the [[United States currency]] on the [[gold standard]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Larry |title=The Encyclopedia of Money |date=2009 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-251-7 |page=184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4kgDkYxGrcC |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; Utah governor [[Heber Manning Wells]] vetoes a bill that would have eased restriction on polygamy.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=26|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref> 
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge]], the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite web |title=National-Wildlife-Refuge System-Birthday-March-14 {{!}} U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |url=https://www.fws.gov/refuges/events/National-Wildlife-Refuge-System-Birthday-March-14.html |website=www.fws.gov |access-date=17 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329084525/https://www.fws.gov/refuges/events/National-Wildlife-Refuge-System-Birthday-March-14.html |archive-date=29 March 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1920]] &ndash; In the second of the [[1920 Schleswig plebiscites]], about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of [[Weimar Germany]].<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/100_jahre_deutsch_daenische_grenze/1920-Deutsch-daenische-Grenze-wird-neu-gezogen,schleswigfrage102.html| title=Deutsch oder dänisch? Die Schleswig-Frage |publisher=[[Norddeutscher Rundfunk]]| language=de| access-date=February 12, 2020}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; Six members of a group of [[Irish Republican Army]] activists known as the [[Forgotten Ten]], are hanged in Dublin's [[Mountjoy Prison]].<ref>O'Halpin, Eunan & Ó Corráin, Daithí (2020), ''The Dead of the Irish Revolution'', Yale University Press, 2020. p. 337</ref>                    
*[[1923]] &ndash; [[Charlie Daly]] and three other members of the [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]] are executed by [[Irish Free State]] forces.<ref>O'Halpin, Eunan & Ó Corráin, Daithí (2020), ''The Dead of the Irish Revolution'', Yale University Press, 2020. p. 228.</ref>
*[[1926]] &ndash; The [[El Virilla train accident]], [[Costa Rica]], kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between [[Heredia, Costa Rica|Heredia]] and [[Tibás]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Armistead |first1=Samuel G. |title=Oral Tradition and Hispanic Literature: Essays in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead |date=1995 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8153-2062-3 |page=315 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yej1AwmvO6gC&pg=PA315 |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1931]] &ndash; ''[[Alam Ara]]'', India's first talking film, is released.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema |date=2003 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7991-066-5 |page=170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PA170 |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Slovak Republic (1939–45)|Slovakia]] declares independence under [[Nazi Germany|German]] pressure.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer C. |title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East [6 volumes]: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East |date=2009 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-672-5 |page=1881 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC&pg=PA1881 |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with [[penicillin]], under the care of [[Orvan Hess]] and John Bumstead.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Lily |first1=Rothman |title=Meet the First American Treated With Penicillin |url=https://time.com/4250235/penicillin-1942-history/ |magazine=Time |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513102749/https://time.com/4250235/penicillin-1942-history/ |archive-date=13 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[The Holocaust]]: The liquidation of the [[Kraków Ghetto]] is completed.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/krakow-cracow | title=Krakow (Cracow) | publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | encyclopedia=Holocaust Encyclopedia | access-date=22 May 2020 | language=en | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412142918/https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/krakow-cracow | archive-date=2020-04-12 | url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; The [[R.A.F.]] drop the [[Grand Slam bomb]] in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near [[Bielefeld]], Germany.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thetford |first1=Owen |title=Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1918-57 |date=1957 |publisher=Putnam |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hr4MAQAAIAAJ |access-date=22 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Korean War]]: [[United Nations]] troops recapture [[Seoul]] for the second time.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Feldman |first1=Ruth Tenzer |title=The Korean War |date=2004 |publisher=Twenty-First Century Books |isbn=978-0-8225-4716-7 |page=84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaJLo67j1cMC&pg=PP84 |access-date=22 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1961]] &ndash; A [[USAF]] B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons [[1961 Yuba City B-52 crash|crashes near Yuba City, California]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maloney |first1=Sean M. |title=Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films |date=2020 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-1-64012-192-8 |page=190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCngDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA190 |access-date=22 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Jack Ruby]] is convicted of killing [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], the assassin who had shot and killed [[John F. Kennedy]] in the previous year.<ref>{{cite book |last1=George |first1=Alice L. |title=The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Political Trauma and American Memory |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-89556-9 |page=xiii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXJF1_nXTKMC&pg=PR13 |access-date=22 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; The body of U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]] is moved to a [[John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame|permanent burial place]] at [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Bodies of Kennedy, Children Are Moved To Permanent Grave|work=The New York Times|date=March 15, 1967|page=A1|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/15/archives/bodies-of-kennedy-children-are-moved-to-permanent-grave.html|access-date=22 May 2020|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Sterling Airways Flight 296]] crashes near [[Kalba]], United Arab Emirates while on approach to [[Dubai International Airport]], killing 112 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 10B3 OY-STL Kalba|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720314-1|access-date=2021-03-13|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1978]] &ndash; The [[Israel Defense Forces]] launch [[Operation Litani]], a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern [[Lebanon]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bregman |first1=Ahron |title=Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947 |date=2002 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-28716-6 |page=150 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDGUgXvNu60C |access-date=22 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600]] crashes at [[Doha International Airport]], killing 45 people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-2D3 JY-ADU Doha Airport (DOH) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19790314-0 |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007]] crashes during [[final approach]] near [[Warsaw]], Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American [[boxing]] team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newsweek.pl/artykuly/sekcje/spoleczenstwo/zatajona-prawda--dlaczego-zginela-anna-jantar,55047,1 |title=Zatajona prawda - katastrofa Ił-62 Mikołaj Kopernik - Polska |publisher=Newsweek.pl |access-date=2016-05-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608075824/http://www.newsweek.pl/artykuly/sekcje/spoleczenstwo/zatajona-prawda--dlaczego-zginela-anna-jantar,55047,1 |archive-date=8 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*[[1982]] &ndash; The South African government [[1982 bombing of the African National Congress headquarters in London|bombs]] the headquarters of the [[African National Congress]] in London.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Davies|first1=Nick|title=From the archive, 15 March 1982: Bomb blast at ANC London office|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/mar/15/anc-apartheid-bomb-london-office|access-date=8 September 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319014739/http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/mar/15/anc-apartheid-bomb-london-office|archive-date=19 March 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> 
*[[1988]] &ndash; In the [[Johnson South Reef Skirmish]] Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the [[Spratly Islands]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chan |first1=Hing Kai |last2=Chan |first2=Faith Ka Shun |last3=O'Brien |first3=David |title=International Flows in the Belt and Road Initiative Context: Business, People, History and Geography |date=2020 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-981-15-3133-0 |page=175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YXDgDwAAQBAJ |access-date=22 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Norman Thagard]] becomes the first American [[astronaut]] to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA-1 Norm Thagard |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/nasa1/nasa1.htm |website=history.nasa.gov |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121214613/https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/nasa1/nasa1.htm |archive-date=21 January 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2006]] &ndash; The [[2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt]] ends in failure.<ref>{{cite news |title=Troops reportedly stop coup attempt |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-03-16-0603160136-story.html |access-date=22 May 2020 |work=chicagotribune.com |date=16 March 2006}}</ref>
*  2006   &ndash; [[Operation Bringing Home the Goods]]: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised [[Palestinian Authority|Palestinian]] prison in [[Jericho]] to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|PFLP]] chief [[Ahmad Sa'adat]].<ref name="jericho-prison-raid">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/world/middleeast/israelis-seize-6-in-raid-on-prison-in-the-west-bank.html |title=Israelis Seize 6 in Raid on Prison in the West Bank |work=The New York Times |date=15 March 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523103449/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/world/middleeast/israelis-seize-6-in-raid-on-prison-in-the-west-bank.html |archive-date=23 May 2022 |url-status=live |last1=Erlanger |first1=Steven |last2=Myre |first2=Greg }}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; The [[Nandigram violence]] in [[Nandigram]], [[West Bengal]], results in the deaths of at least 14 people.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sen |first1=Swagata |title=2007-Nandigram violence: A state of failure |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20091228-2007-nandigram-violence-a-state-of-failure-741632-2009-12-24 |access-date=22 May 2020 |work=India Today |date=24 December 2009 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015205327/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20091228-2007-nandigram-violence-a-state-of-failure-741632-2009-12-24 |archive-date=15 October 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2008]] &ndash; A series of [[2008 Tibetan unrest|riots, protests, and demonstrations]] erupt in [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]] and subsequently spread elsewhere in [[Tibet]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Tibetan riots spread outside region |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/world/asia/16iht-tibet.1.11134870.html |access-date=25 February 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=16 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225070813/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/world/asia/16iht-tibet.1.11134870.html |archive-date=25 February 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2017]] &ndash; A naming ceremony for the chemical element [[nihonium]] takes place in Tokyo, with then [[Naruhito|Crown Prince Naruhito]] in attendance.<ref>{{cite news |work=News on Japan |date=15 March 2017 |title=Naming ceremony held for new element 'nihonium' |url=http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/119326.php |access-date=28 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128132830/http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/119326.php |archive-date=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jinr.ru/posts/at-the-inauguration-ceremony-of-the-new-elements-of-the-periodic-table-of-d-i-mendeleev/ |title=At the inauguration ceremony of the new elements of the Periodic table of D.I. Mendeleev |last=Fedorova |first=Vera |date=3 March 2017 |website=jinr.ru |publisher=[[Joint Institute for Nuclear Research]] |access-date=4 February 2018}}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[Cyclone Idai]] makes landfall near [[Beira, Mozambique]], causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.<ref>{{citation|title=Cyclone Idai 'might be southern hemisphere's worst such disaster' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/cyclone-idai-worst-weather-disaster-to-hit-southern-hemisphere-mozambique-malawi|date=March 19, 2019|last=Maclean|first=Ruth|newspaper=The Guardian |location=Dakar |access-date=March 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322182322/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/cyclone-idai-worst-weather-disaster-to-hit-southern-hemisphere-mozambique-malawi|archive-date=March 22, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the [[Hlaingthaya massacre]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2021-12-02 |title=Myanmar: Protesters Targeted in March Massacre |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/12/02/myanmar-protesters-targeted-march-massacre |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=Human Rights Watch |language=en}}</ref>