Merriam-Webster dictionary defines history as a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events. It’s a chronological record of significant events often including an explanation of their causes. The earliest known use of the word history was in the 14th century.
This website utilizes entries from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are currently 105,060 records in our database. The present day Gregorian calendar was adopted to show dates of interest.
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About March 22
March 22, 2023 is the 81st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 325 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 22
- 1622 –Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.
- 1906 –First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
- 1945 –The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1972 –The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
- 1984 –Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
- 1997 –The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
- 2004 –Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
- 2006 –ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
- 2006 –Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
- 2009 –Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
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