Historical events on March 31
MARCH 31, 1146
French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at a council in Vézelay, with King Louis VII in attendance, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade.
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name
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MARCH 31, 1942
Second World War: Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, Japanese troops captured Christmas Island without any resistance.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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MARCH 31, 1992
USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship.
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MARCH 31, 1854
U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Japanese depiction pictured) and the Tokugawa shogunate signed the Convention of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most
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MARCH 31, 1910
Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.
The federation of Stoke-on-Trent was the 1910 amalgamation of the six Staffordshire Potteries towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Fenton and Longton
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MARCH 31, 1913
Arnold Schoenberg conducted the Vienna Concert Society in a concert of expressionist music that so shocked the audience that they began to riot.
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who
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MARCH 31, 1899
Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
The Philippine–American War, known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino–American War, or Tagalog Insurgency, emerged following the conclusion of the Spanish–American War
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MARCH 31, 1959
After a two-week escape journey from Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama reached the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India.
In March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet, together with members of his family and his government. They fled the
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MARCH 31, 1930
To avoid government censorship, Hollywood movie studios instituted their own set of industry censorship guidelines, popularly known as the Hays Code.
The cinema of the United States, primarily associated with major film studios collectively referred to as Hollywood, has significantly influenced the global
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MARCH 31, 2018
Nikol Pashinyan began his protest walk, starting in the city of Gyumri, opening the 2018 Armenian revolution.
Gyumri is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the
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MARCH 31, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan and members of his crew participated in the first Catholic Mass in the Philippines.
Fernão de Magalhães was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies.
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MARCH 31, 2023
A tornado causes the collapse of a venue hosting a sold-out concert in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, resulting in one death and 48 injuries.
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud
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MARCH 31, 1964
The Brazilian Armed Forces overthrew President João Goulart, establishing a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years.
The Brazilian Armed Forces are the unified military forces of the Federative Republic of Brazil. Consisting of three service branches, it comprises
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MARCH 31, 1800
After fighting through the night, the French Navy ship of the line Guillaume Tell surrendered to a British squadron in the Malta Channel.
The action of 31 March 1800 was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought between a Royal Navy squadron and
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