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The following events took place on March 21. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 50 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 537

  Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
• 630

  Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
• 717

  Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
• 1152

  Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• 1188

  Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
• 1413

  Henry V becomes King of England.
• 1556

  In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
• 1788

  A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
• 1800

  With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
• 1801

  The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
• 1804

  Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
• 1814

  Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
• 1821

  Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
• 1844

  The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
• 1857

  An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
• 1861

  Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
• 1871

  Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
• 1871

  Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• 1913

  Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
• 1918

  World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
• 1919

  The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
• 1921

  The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
• 1925

  The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
• 1925

  Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
• 1928

  Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• 1933

  Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
• 1935

  Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, meaning “Land of the Aryans”.
• 1937

  Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
• 1943

  Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
• 1945

  World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.

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