Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 22

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March 22: Laetare Sunday/Mothering Sunday (Western Christianity, 2009); World Day for Water

• 238 – Because of his advanced age, Gordian I was proclaimed Roman Emperor along with his son Gordian II.

• 1622 – The Powhatan Confederacy under Chief Opchanacanough killed almost 350 English settlers around Jamestown, a third of the Colony of Virginia's population.

• 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British North America carry a tax stamp, adding fuel to the growing separatist movement in the area.

• 1849 – First Italian War of Independence: After capturing the fortress town of Mortara, forces led by Austrian General Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (pictured) routed Sardinian troops at the Battle of Novara.

• 1945 – Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, and Yemen founded the Arab League, a regional organization that facilitates political, economic, cultural, scientific and social programs designed to promote the interests of the Arab world.

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