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{{*mp}} [[1311]] – The [[Catalan Company]] defeated [[Walter V of Brienne]] in the '''[[Battle of Halmyros]]''' and took control of the [[Duchy of Athens]], a [[Crusader states|Crusader state]] in [[Greece]].<!--refimprove |
{{*mp}} [[1311]] – The [[Catalan Company]] defeated [[Walter V of Brienne]] in the '''[[Battle of Halmyros]]''' and took control of the [[Duchy of Athens]], a [[Crusader states|Crusader state]] in [[Greece]].<!--refimprove |
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{{*mp}} [[1776]] – '''[[History of South Carolina|South Carolina]]''' became the first of [[Great Britain]]'s [[Thirteen Colonies|North American colonies]] to declare its independence.<!--refimprove |
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{{*mp}} [[1781]] – [[American Revolutionary War]]: A [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] force under General [[Charles Cornwallis|Lord Cornwallis]], numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 [[United States|American]] troops under [[Rhode Island]] native General [[Nathanael Greene]] at the '''[[Battle of Guilford Court House]]''' inside present-day [[Greensboro, North Carolina|Greensboro]], [[North Carolina]]. <!--Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
{{*mp}} [[1781]] – [[American Revolutionary War]]: A [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] force under General [[Charles Cornwallis|Lord Cornwallis]], numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 [[United States|American]] troops under [[Rhode Island]] native General [[Nathanael Greene]] at the '''[[Battle of Guilford Court House]]''' inside present-day [[Greensboro, North Carolina|Greensboro]], [[North Carolina]]. <!--Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
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{{*mp}} [[1820]] – Primarily due to '''[[History of Maine|its vulnerability]]'''<!--unreferenced section-> to foreign invasions, the [[Enclave and exclave|exclave]] of [[Massachusetts]] known as [[Maine]]<!--Not bolded, tagged with {{refimprove}}-> was given its own [[U.S. state]]hood. |
{{*mp}} [[1820]] – Primarily due to '''[[History of Maine|its vulnerability]]'''<!--unreferenced section-> to foreign invasions, the [[Enclave and exclave|exclave]] of [[Massachusetts]] known as [[Maine]]<!--Not bolded, tagged with {{refimprove}}-> was given its own [[U.S. state]]hood. |
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Revision as of 23:45, 15 March 2011
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March 15: Ides of March; National Day in Hungary (1848); Hōnen Matsuri in Japan
- 44 BC – Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators.
- 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II (pictured) of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
- 1943 – World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkov.
- 1972 – The Godfather, a gangster film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was released.
- 1985 – The company Symbolics became the first ever entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com.